Word: bloodless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Morrow: he had better resign. Morrow recalled what Shivers told him: "It's pure politics, Wright; I need Rayburn's help." Morrow stubbornly refused, and the governor hustled off to headquarters. In a Capitol Hill serving kitchen he smoked the peace pipe with Sam Rayburn and bloodless National Chairman Paul Butler. The sacrifice was coolly arranged...
...leader of Thailand's underground. When the Japanese left, Pridi became Premier, and Phibun was jailed for a while, then retired until his collaborationist past faded away. When he reappeared on a Bangkok parade ground to fly his kites, Thailanders knew he was back in politics. A 1947 bloodless coup restored him to power, sent Pridi into exile. Durable Premier Phibun has survived several attempted counterrevolutions. (In 1951 he was politely captured by the navy in the midst of a ceremony. He was taken aboard a warship, but escaped when a bomb hit the ship. Phibun swam safely back...
...that the real cause of trouble was "the gross interference of the U.S. in the internal affairs of China," Molotov said he would consider it. (Molotov was more expansive later when visiting Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. asked if there might be a local cease-fire to permit the bloodless evacuation of the Tachens. "If Chiang Kai-shek should desire to withdraw his forces from any islands, hardly anyone would try to prevent him from doing so," said Molotov dryly...
Actually, Thayer (1849-1921) was a better painter than modern critics are likely to allow. Critic James Flexner, for example, dismisses Thayer as a "workman" who "worked out a delicate and bloodless version of femininity which, draped or even undraped, was more pleasing to refined purchasers than the hardy realism of Homer and Eakins...
...Bloodless Coo. The day before the bipartisanship meeting, the President had held an even longer session with congressional Republicans to give a yes answer to another question: Can the U.S. Government function when the President's party is split? In fashioning next year's domestic program for Congress, the possibilities for friction had seemed greater than at the foreign-policy meeting. But Senate Leader William Knowland intoned that the talks had been "constructive and harmonious." Colorado's Senator Eugene Millikin reported that the whole affair was "like the cooing of doves...