Word: cuff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minded critics were afraid he had not cut far enough, and defense-minded critics feared that the results of his cuts might impair U.S. security. But any who thought Dwight Eisenhower had lost his sense of balance between the two logics had not listened to his short, off-the-cuff speech at midweek to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Said he: "These [defense-security] costs are going to be lowered at the earliest possible moment. But they are never going to be lowered beyond that point that you can, with justification, say: 'I shall sleep well tonight because...
...JIMMY BYRNES "spoke freely and ... off the cuff, but was not always legalistically precise. Molotov sought repeatedly to draw him out . . . 'What precisely was it that he proposed?' 'Would he restate the case so as to clarify it?' Molotov . . . hoped that by evoking statements and restatements that were extemporaneous, he might bring about a misstatement upon which he could seize...
With a personal staff of six chamberlains, Crown Prince Akihito, 19, sailed from Tokyo on the S.S. President Wilson for his first trip abroad, a six-month journey which will take in the coronation in London. Emperor Hirohito gave his son a bon voyage present of pearl cuff links; the Empress personally packed his wardrobe trunk. Both parents watched the Prince's departure on a palace...
...week's end, A.M.A. summoned its house of delegates into special session at Washington's Statler Hotel to give an opinion of the Eisenhower reorganization plan. To reassure A.M.A., Eisenhower and Secretary-to-be Hobby went over to the meeting themselves. In an off-the-cuff speech, the President said he had found, in the past few years, that "I have certain philosophical bonds with doctors. I don't like the word 'compulsory.' I am against the word 'socialized.' " He was sure that the Government could do more for the national health...
...fewer than the Catholics), and in the popular vote beat the Catholics by 37,000. In Austrian politics, which are often referred to as an "institutionalized deadlock," this meant more stalemate, with both main parties bucking for the premiership. But for neo-Nazis and Communists, the result was a cuff in the face. The Independents dwindled from 16 to 14 seats; the Communists dropped to a noisy minority of four...