Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sustained Meanness. These were measurements to apply in the future. Acheson had an assignment to carry out a policy already clearly outlined. The policy was to keep a hard eye on the Russian neighbor and to contain him on the ground he had seized. This was not the way Americans usually liked to behave. They liked to be on a friendly basis with everyone, and if there were any differences, have things out and get it over with. But the U.S. was going to have to be unneighborly for a good many years to come. It was a policy which...
...commanded respect on Capitol Hill. Backslapping Congressmen did not especially take to him, but they appreciated his cold competence. They also appreciated the fact that he appeared to stand above ordinary Washington politicking. If he was ever devious, it was a deviousness too subtle for the average human eye. On the record, his methods were straight and direct. He sometimes got impatient at congressional questioning, but managed pretty well to cover it up; only occasionally did his voice become edgy and curt. Once, when he was Assistant Secretary, he spent a whole day under the grueling, stubborn fire...
...regime of Pedro Ramirez, who was overthrown by Perón in 1944 for planning to break relations with the Axis. González bore the brand-new title of Immigration Director, but few Argentines had to be told that his real job was to keep an eye on the President's office...
...claw hammer coat and stovepipe hat, glued on a black mustache, and helped re-enact the granting of the Q's 1849 charter for its first twelve miles of track. But Budd, whose 10,600-mile railroad system is now the U.S.'s fourth longest,* had his eye, as usual, on the future...
...this twist on an old theme, Producer Sydney Box (The Seventh Veil) and Director Arthur Crabtree have built a wryly humorous study of lower-middle-class life in a London suburb. The camera moves with a sharp, knowing eye from the vulgar pretensions of tea in the Sunbury parlor to Herbert's wonderful kite straining and swooping in a fine summer breeze. Though Herbert and his wife are happily reconciled (over a kite string on the commons), the movie never compromises with the silver cord. As Herbert's mom, Hermione Baddeley gives a viciously distinguished performance...