Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both sides and even within the Administration." And best evidence was that last week's testimony was only the visible iceberg peak of a classic inner-Administration argument as the Administration attempted to set a new cold-war balance between what Secretary of State Dulles and his advisers call "ponderables," i.e., military necessities, and "imponderables," i.e., propaganda to placate "world opinion...
Some folks dare to call Vinson "Uncle Carl," and sometimes "The Swamp Fox," after the Revolution's great strategist, Francis Marion. In committee hearings Uncle Carl's slow drawl and subtle digs ("Wha'd'ya say yer name wuz, Gen'ral?") can shake stars and tangle braid. Though he has long been a stalwart defender of a big Navy, knowledgeable Carl Vinson is also a wise, powerful force for a strong military establishment. But Ike's plan was too much for Uncle Carl...
...Poujadist, interrupted: "Of the two dangers that menace the independence of France-Bolshevik Russia and the United States-the latter is by far the worse." Then the banderilleros retired, and Gaillard found himself face to face with burly Gaullist Jacques Soustelle, the man whom Frenchmen have come to call Jacques le tombeur-Jacques the Cabinet-wrecker...
...With an assurance born of experience-it was he who only six months ago led the attack that toppled Gaillard's predecessor, Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury-Soustelle began by labeling Gaillard a "puppet" of the U.S. "If French policy is made in Washington," said Soustelle, "did you call the Assembly back here to play with baby rattles? A week ago you said the good offices mission was at an impasse. What caused you to change your mind? Only one new fact: the letter from Eisenhower...
...breach of duty. "I was nothing but a bum in a policeman's uniform," he says. "I showed no mercy, no tolerance. My arrest tactics were often disgraceful brawls. Most of the time I was so sick from drinking that I couldn't make it to roll call...