Word: candidates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cheesecake. Among the worst offenders, said the committee, are nudist magazines supposedly "published in the interest of sunshine and health," and straight cheesecake magazines. Sample cheesecake titles: Candid Whirl, Glamorous Models, Wink, Whisper, Keyhole, Titter, Foo, Nifty, Pepper, Zip, Wham, Paris Life...
While in prison he wrote The Drinker, camouflaging the book by strewing its sentences through a bulky nonsense novel. Unscrambled after Fallada's death in 1947, this novel adds little to his reputation, but its suspiciously autobiographical scent and its candid odor of damnation suggest the careful note-taking of a house guest in Hell...
...book's first chapter is a candid account of the relationships, frictions and ultimate understanding between the people of Britain and the hundreds of thousands of U.S. servicemen whom they suddenly found in their midst. Later chapters tell of the financing of an American Memorial Chapel in St. Paul's Cathedral (through the small, anonymous contributions of millions of people in the British Isles, who raised approximately $280,000), and of the dedication on July 4, 1951 of the Roll of Honour, listing the names of the 28,000 American dead...
Personality: Informal and friendly; candid in conversation; works hard, long hours, sleeps easily, except on trains or planes which make him airsick; prefers bow ties. Says an associate: "Mike is a very complicated character. The first thing you find out working with him is that he's not the simple barefoot boy people think...
From the U.S. official closest to the Iranian oil crisis for the longest time, Henry Grady, U.S. ambassador to Teheran for 14 months, came an undiplomatically candid comment on the diplomatic break. "Had Britain and the U.S. backed [General Ali] Razmara, the former Iranian Prime Minister who was a friend of the West and who was fighting the nationalization movement, this present situation would not have developed," Grady said in San Francisco. "Nor would Razmara have been assassinated...