Word: consultant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onto the Dulles carpet, walked Presidential Disarmament Adviser Harold Stassen. Preceding Stassen was a sheaf of crackling cables from U.S. embassies in Western Europe. Stassen, the complaint ran, had pulled a diplomatic blooper, and the European allies were miffed. The blooper: Stassen, after promising Western partners that he would consult with them before making any specific disarmament proposals to the Russians, had launched into private talks with Russia's disarmament representative, Valerian Zorin (architect of the Russian takeover of Czechoslovakia...
...over backward and belt the hell out of CBS-that is the real problem." He expects no gripes from other networks. CBS TV Program Director Hubbell Robinson thinks that Crosby "is a man of sufficient integrity to handle both jobs very well." The Herald Tribune, which Crosby did not consult about the new job ("There was no reason to," he says), is also unperturbed. "It goes without saying," says Executive Editor George Cornish, "that he won't review his own show...
...Another is that the army (100,000 men) and the air force (20,000) might become ominously restive if an admiral of the navy (20,000) were made President. "Between the admiral and me," says Aramburu, "there is great understanding. He is always at my side, seconding me. I consult him on every decision...
...live either in slums or on the streets. The project aroused the esthetic displeasure of famed Art Expert Bernard Berenson: it would lie on the road to his villa. And it aroused the political wrath of the Social Democrats because of La Pira's failure to consult them. Faced with the likelihood of a vote of "no confidence," La Pira resigned as mayor...
...national war of liberation. As the mutineers in their elaborate British uniforms streamed into his city, all the pious old gentleman could do was to ask them not to loot too much (most of the British in Delhi were massacred in the first few days succeeding the mutiny) and consult the entrails of a goat in the hope of a suitable augury...