Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven votes were sufficient, although the Soviet Union later claimed that its own absence from the council table made the action illegal. Eleanor Roosevelt had the answer to that. In London she said: "All this talk of [Russia's] about the Security Council decision not being legal because she's not there, well, whose fault is it that she's not?" By week's end, 40 nations were in line and offers of armed aid for Korea had poured in from every corner of the earth...
...Copenhagen airport, junketing Eleanor Roosevelt was greeted by U.S. Ambassadress Eugenie Anderson, Danish Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen and American Ballad Singer Josh White. Accompanied by son Elliott, she went on to The Netherlands for a little visit with Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in Soestdijk palace. She also drove to her family's ancestral home, Oud-Vossemeer, where the whole town, including 40 local Roosevelts, turned out to cheer her. In Luxembourg, she went to a banquet given for her by Grand Duchess Charlotte, took Madam Minister Perle Mesta out to lay a wreath on the grave of General...
...Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings, by Amy Kelly. A handsome, beguiling biography of the greatest dynast of her day, who married two kings, bore two more (TIME, June...
Scripted by Virginia Kellogg and Bernard Schoenfeld, Caged has a tendency to spell out all emotions-especially sentiment-in large, block capital letters. But John Cromwell's direction has some unblinkingly realistic moments, and Caged ends on a stringent and unexpected note: paroled at last, Eleanor joins up with a vice ring and the hard-bitten warden gloomily reserves a cell for her early return...
...Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings, by Amy Kelly. A handsome, beguiling biography of the greatest dynast of her day, who married two kings, bore two more (TIME, June...