Word: blanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suave old former Secretary of State has a much younger wife who seeks her freedom-to marry (as he learns without her telling him) a Senator her own age. The Secretary's bland if not too convincing strategy is to make the Senator lose ground politically by being a bachelor, and then hurry him into a marriage-in-name-only with a seemingly plain and simple schoolteacher. In a trice, of course, the bride grows wildly attractive and wonderfully astute. This state of affairs, even when christened Affairs of State, can have but one outcome...
Wrong Time of Day. But the Kremlin (so many of the Western experts think) just could not believe that the U.S. could be so stupid as to let Formosa fall. They believed the Washington statements on Korea, but they suspected a trap in the bland way the U.S. had informed the world that it would not help Chiang Kai-shek defend Formosa...
...Church of England has learned an immense patience. It still needs to call on its reserves when dealing with its blatantly Communist-line "Red Dean" of Canterbury, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson. The Archbishop of Canterbury has publicly shaken his head many times over the Red Dean's bland blurts in favor of Communism and all things Russian. In London last week, at the Lord Mayor's dinner for Anglican Bishops, the Archbishop responded to a toast "to the clergy at home and overseas...
...made a dramatic contrast. The Emperor was young (then 32), plump, clean-shaven, bland-faced, fond of snappy Western sport clothes. Ho was aging (55), slight (hardly 5 ft. tall), goat-bearded, steelyeyed, usually seen in a frayed khaki tunic and cloth slippers. Ho Chi Minh, too, had gone to France for education. As a young man, he had been sent into exile by the French police of Indo-China because of his family's nationalist agitation. His father and a brother went to political prison for life. A sister received nine years of hard labor...
Washington saw only the bland mask of racketeering. Its real face could be seen better last week in Kansas City, capital of the political machine that sent Harry Truman to Washington in 1934 as U.S. Senator...