Word: conjurors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dynamite Juggler. He dismisses Roosevelt as an amateur whose interest in Europe probably sprang from "his hobby of stamp collecting. But the academic yet sweeping opinions which he built upon it were alarming in their cheerful fecklessness. Too much a conjuror, skillfully juggling with balls of dynamite whose nature he failed to understand." All told, Eden preferred Joe Stalin, though he did not trust him: "Indeed, after something like 30 years' experience of international conferences, if I had to pick a team for going into a conference room, Stalin would be my first choice. Of course...
...magic phrase soon assumes the flavor of a conjuror's patter, with the difference that the trick is neither cleverly nor effectively done. The professor or impartial committee (like that which drafted the Draper Report in late 1959) advises; the President requests an appropriation. Finally, the Congress authorizes and appropriates perhaps $3.8 billion for both military and economic assistance, a mere four per cent of the annual budget...