Word: errand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clenched Fists. In his 20s during the '30s, Bendiner managed to find work as a switchboard operator-errand boy-editorial assistant-reporter-managing editor for a variety of magazines, including New Masses and Nation. His account of life with the Old Left shows how wise the Communists were in denouncing him as an enemy of the people...
...Errand Boy. Indeed, some U.S. policymakers caviled at Thant's plan. For one thing, they pointed out, the Secretary-General did not specify with any degree of clarity whether or not the U.S. air war against North Viet Nam, which he calls "an insurmountable obstacle to discussions," would have to be suspended as a precondition to the truce. For another, they noted that any such truce could become a trap. They recalled in particular how the Chinese Communists, routed in the battle of Szepingkai in 1946 and on the brink of losing all of Manchuria to Chiang Kai-shek...
...urged a mutual truce rather than a unilateral U.S. deescalation, the Administration moved with alacrity to accept his proposal as "constructive and positive." Hanoi thereupon broadcast a scathing denunciation of Thant for having made "no distinction between the aggressors and the victim of aggression," while Peking branded him "an errand boy for Washington...
...prosecution rested its case, Defense Attorney Edward Bennett Williams called Baker as his first witness. Displaying little of the bravado of his less troubled days, Bobby calmly told the jury of sundry influence-peddling deals. But his own role, he maintained, had been little more than that of an errand boy for Kerr...
Pravda sneeringly called it a "Holly wood panorama." Indeed, President Johnson's Asian odyssey did at times seem more like a Bob Hope extrava ganza (The Road to Manila?) than a diplomatic errand of potential historic significance. The star of the show basked in all the attention he was getting from Hawaiian hula dancers and Samoan chieftains, spear-brandishing Maori warriors and confetti-throwing Aussies. His hand was puffed and bleeding from countless handshakes, his voice hoarse from scores of official and unofficial speeches, his feelings bruised by catcalling Vietniks and placards bearing such slogans as THE YELLOW ROGUE...