Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spit & Polish. The British mission to Washington has never (in peacetime) been as big and busy as it is today, although it has always been regarded as important. It has been presided over by a varied and colorful line of ministers and ambassadors: ¶Stratford Canning (1820-23), who reported with lordly condescension: "I have met with few instances of impertinence . . . Chewing and smoking appear on the decline; indoor spitting is also less common...
...year). To explain the phenomenon, some of Franks's friends fumble with such fuzzy words as "elusive" and "intuitive" to describe his gifts, but one who has known him for years put it very simply last week: "Franks is essentially a very simple man on whose shoulders a big, beautiful piece of mental machinery has been placed...
Fancy Knots. When the shooting war was over, Franks ("the greatest civilian discovery of the war") could have been head of Britain's Steel Board or had his pick of many glittering big business jobs. He turned them all down to go back to Oxford as provost of his old college. But the following year, in 1947, when a stricken and bankrupt Europe was feverishly fingering the hope just held out by the Marshall Plan, Ernie Bevin, now Foreign Minister, called Franks from his cloister to head the British delegation to the 16-nation Paris conference...
...from the Cocktails. Big as Father Franks's Embassy is, it is slickly streamlined to maintain the most sensitive contact with the State Department at all levels-especially the ones just below the top, where decisions are so often born...
...Assembly's provisional 60-point agenda read like a slightly smudged carbon copy of last year's. The big items were the painful old perennials, which various committees and commissions were tossing back to the Assembly: Indonesia, on which the Dutch are wearily trying to reach agreement with the Republicans; Korea, whose well-armed Northern Communist regime has refused even to admit U.N. commissioners into its territory; Israel, which is protesting violently against a U.N. plan to internationalize Jerusalem...