Word: cool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other than the President himself symbolized the first Eisenhower Administration, it was marble-cool, granite-solid Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey. He was Dwight Eisenhower's closest Cabinet friend, the President's most trusted adviser in domestic affairs, the architect of a fiscal policy that helped bring record-breaking prosperity in peacetime. Months ago, George Humphrey telegraphed his intention to return to private business at the end of the 85th Congress (TIME, Feb. 11). The announcement last week of his resignation was therefore no surprise. But it was a highly significant landmark: it was in a strong sense...
...within the Tory Party itself, there is considerable malicious glee at the report that Sir Winston Churchill refers to Selwyn Lloyd as "Mr. Celluloid." Last week, in implicit answer to all criticisms, Macmillan publicly described Lloyd as "a loyal and sagacious colleague" with "a stout heart and a cool head," but carefully refrained from committing himself to keeping Lloyd in the Cabinet for any specified length of time. "In politics, as in rowing a boat," noted the London Economist, "it is sometimes easier to move swiftly in one direction if one's eyes are fixed pointedly in the other...
...Ceylon. In addition, Jawaharlal Nehru could hardly be expected to welcome a challenger to his dream of being leader of Free Asia. When Kishi set down last week in New Delhi, wearing a black wool suit, the temperature was 103°, but his reception, if proper, was decidedly cool...
...Cool autumn winds off the River Plate stirred fitfully through Buenos Aires this week, fluttering bright political posters on the walls, wafting a rich aroma from the stand-up coffee bars, riffling the leaves of the acacia trees. Steamers hooted in the harbor, cattle bawled in the stockyards, streetcars clanged and creaked. In the restaurants, solid citizens, their appetites renewed by the crisp air, tucked napkins into collars and turned with sober and fastidious attention to platter-size steaks and tall bottles of red wine. At night, in the tango palaces, unsmiling couples danced as black-suited singers mourned...
Twist of the Knife. Looking hopefully at this dissension amongst the Tories, the Labor Party moved to the attack in Commons, proposing a vote of censure against the government's Suez policy. With cool remorselessness, Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell ticked off the consequences of the Suez war-"the blocking of the canal, the cutting of the pipelines, the strain on the pound, the introduction of petrol rationing,* the check to industrial expansion, a tremendous blow to our reputation in the world." The upshot, needled Gaitskell, was that "we are now forced to accept [from Egypt] terms far worse than...