Word: eggheaded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Egghead Roll." Pearson now has that trust. "The very first thing I will do." he vows, "is to try to establish the climate of confidence." To rebuild swiftly Canada's crumbled reputation abroad, Pearson plans...
...last time Pearson and Kennedy met was at the White House dinner for Nobel prizewinners last spring, dubbed by Pearson "The President's Easter Egghead Roll." "I believe we can get back on a very friendly and cooperative basis without difficulty," Pearson says. "I know our relations are going to be complicated and at times difficult. The thing that matters is to accept our responsibilities...
...When an egghead runs for political office, his backers ordinarily try to build up his image as a regular guy. If, for example, he once went to a baseball game, he now gets billed as a devoted fan. But H. Stuart Hughes, running as an independent for Senator from Massachusetts, departs from this pattern. A Harvard history professor and the author of several scholarly works, Hughes is an egghead who makes no concessions to popular political behavior...
...departments of their Faculty supporters, and indicated they were not unhappy with the image of a Harvard nucleus for their campaign. Spokesmen for the McCormack and Kennedy supporters shied away from citing a list of their backers at Harvard, however, claiming that their campaigns were based not on "egghead braintrusts," but on diversified and widespread party support...
...This is the President's Easter egghead roll," he quipped...