Word: contradict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your editorial on Stevenson was well-reasoned and highly convincing, but your treatment of Eisenhower seemed to contradict the opening distinction you made between present-day "hardened" Liberalism and careful independence of mind. To one who still has what he feels to be the best of reasons in favoring the General, you seemed guilty of one intellectual sin you deplored, "the Big Oversimplification." To cite at least three instances of this: (1) "On foreign affairs, where he is meant to be an expert, all Eisenhower has offered is a restatement of Democratic policy on Europe, in terms just different enough...
What Is Cooking. Juliana did as well at captivating Washington correspondents. "It must be wonderful sport," she said at a Statler Hotel luncheon with press, radio & television reporters, "to contradict each other. You are interested in the kitchen of the world-you want to find out what is cooking . . . who has a finger in the pie and who will burn his finger." But her interview with Washington newshens seemed to leave her slightly appalled. "My God," she murmured, as she looked at one of a sheaf of written questions which had been submitted. She had been asked...
...training at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, plus a few lessons in manners and the craft of kingship. The moment he returned to Cairo, he was plumped into an atmosphere of intrigue and luxury. He was surrounded largely by sycophants who catered to his whims and seldom dared contradict him. He inherited a private fortune of $50 million, an annual Civil List income of $400,000, four fabulous palaces, huge estates, yachts. Queen Mother Nazli was a devotee of crystal balls, card reading, the scrutiny of tea leaves, and the augural dissection of pigeons. (She now lives in Beverly...
...display, but granted honorable catalogue mention: the 1949 Ford, 1947 Studebaker, 1939 Cadillac 60 Special and 1938 Lincoln Zephyr. Wrote Connoisseur Drexler in an accolade that, by clear implication, also rejected a good many other models that have come down the pike: "These cars contradict the claim that the American public prefers what is ugly, gross, or even vulgar . . . The dollar grin, as the American grille is known abroad, does not represent our best effort...
Vice President for Asia? No one outside the Communist world can ever be certain how its devious balances of power stand. But such facts, signs & portents as are available on China flatly contradict the Alsop thesis...