Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such confidence in Eisenhower the President-as opposed to Ike the friend-had been strangely long in coming. Only a few weeks ago, much of the European press-and especially the British press-was still painting Dwight Eisenhower as a weak President, racked by illness, sapped by age and barely able to carry on. Indeed, long after it should have known better, part of the U.S. press had been describing Ike in similar terms. The dismal picture of President Eisenhower had its basis in the three major illnesses he suffered in three successive years, illnesses that could only detract from...
...next stop was Chequers, in the green vales of Buckinghamshire just 40 miles northwest of London, country home of British Prime Ministers since 1917. Opened briefly last week to newsmen for the first time, Chequers, as Harold Macmillan said, is "a good place to work and a good place to rest." Dwight Eisenhower and Harold Macmillan did both, at one point using Presidential Physician Howard Snyder as their range pole for golf shots on Chequers' broad lawns, at other times going behind closed doors for serious talks...
Behind the decision lay the fact that the U.S.-British-Soviet conference in Geneva, aimed at reaching a test-ban agreement with adequate safeguards against cheating, had just recessed its bogged-down negotiations until Oct. 12 to await the outcome of face-to-face talks between the President and Russia's Nikita Khrushchev. Ike agreed with the State Department that the span between Oct. 12, when the Geneva conference starts up again, and Oct. 31, when the U.S. test-suspension period was supposed to end, would not give the conference enough time to make any progress no matter what...
...Antibes, where footfalls sink into deep carpets and almost no one goes into the water. Spain's Prince Juan Carlos handled a sailboat off Cannes; and a $215,000 jewel theft last week from the Cap-d'Antibes villa of a British textile millionaire proved the season a social success...
Then began four months in Holland's crowded underground of British paratroops, Allied flyers, refugee Jews, secret agents. It was an eerie world, in which Dutch villagers would "send for the underground men just as they did for the plumber." Paul holed up in one hideout beneath the floorboards of a barn while German troops clomped about up above. He narrowly missed recapture when he joined in an astonishing attempt at a mass breakout to British lines by 110 men, which German patrols mopped up. Two more attempts failed; he had one desperate but exhilarating moment when he wheeled...