Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg. . . . As a Christian gentleman, a thinker, a scholar, a diplomat, a patriot, he is unexcelled...
...room, the Atomic Energy Commission held its first meeting since September. It set up a control committee to go ahead with the '"majority plan" (the U.S. plan), blueprinting the structure and operations of an international control body, even down to financing. Russia's Andrei Gromyko, the deadpan diplomat, did not vote against this project, but he scorned it. Since Russia's current line is to do nothing and to blame the U.S. for the fact that nothing is done, Gromyko did not want people to get the idea that the AEC was gaining ground...
...Booth Tarking-ton), writer of once popular novels (The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men); in Indianapolis. Romancer Nicholson, who felt that "you have got to get some brains into public office," turned from literature to politics, practiced what he preached as Indianapolis city councilman, diplomat (U.S Minister to Paraguay, Venezuela, Nicaragua...
Governor Tom Dewey enjoyed a cautious bout of political doubletalk with a traveling foreign diplomat. Discussing France's Charles de Gaulle, the diplomat declared himself strongly against any general as chief of state. Grinning broadly, Candidate Dewey, with at least one other general in mind, nodded enthusiastic agreement...
...clinician" who presented most of the data was Harold Nicolson, urbane British author, onetime diplomat and M.P. To nail the "popular fallacy" that creative writers are prone to be sickly, psychopathic, and "doomed to an untimely death," Nicolson examined the health and lives of Britain's literary great. "Since of all writers poets are . . . the most 'creative,' I . . . concentrate my observations upon the behavior and temperament of poets." Some of his findings...