Word: far-flung
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...Four, the year's theme was a recessional. Sir Anthony Eden, physically sick and spiritually drained after the fiasco at Suez, resigned as Prime Minister. His successor put out a White Paper proclaiming that Britannia was done with ruling the waves, was thinning out the proud red line of far-flung posts on which the sun never set, and withdrawing to a more realistic stance as a tidier, tighter nuclear power. Guy Mollet, the other architect of the Suez failure, fell from power in his turn, but France fought out its frustrations in Algeria, where 39,931 perished...
...far-flung Teamster brass summoned for the show, Jimmy Hoffa looked like more of a boss than ever because he had just beaten federal charges that he had tried to plant an agent on the Senate's McClellan committee investigating labor racketeering (TIME, July 29). As Reformer Hoffa, he took the rostrum to propose: 1) an organizing drive to gain 600,000 Teamster members, 2) transfer of some Beck-abused powers from the president to the union's executive board, 3) a demand that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. revoke its policy of censuring union officers who plead the Fifth...
Last week Hollister took up his option to resign at the end of a two-year term, sent a letter of resignation to the President that showed just how far he had come. Foreign aid, when properly administered and wisely aimed, is effective and essential to mutual security, he concluded. "This must continue as long as aggressive international Communism threatens us. In the nature of things this far-flung effort ... is occasionally wasteful and inefficient. Chances must be taken, and in many cases it will be some years before we can see how successful the gamble may have been." Then...
...Hello, Love." Leslie Hubble, who has been married 31 years (no children), runs the papers' far-flung readers' service from London's Kemsley House, where his musty office is decorated with postcard trophies of his favorite off-duty pastime-visiting cathedrals. The antithesis of hooch-soaked Miss Lonelyhearts, the wretched male troubleshooter* of Nathanael West's novel, plump Leslie Hubble is a meticulous reporter and devoted do-gooder who works 6½ days a week at his job, sometimes spends months ferreting out a story...
College administrators and grad school admissions officers say that they are satisfied with grades as forecasters, though they readily admit that a personal appraisal is superior, when they personally know the candidates for some award. But the idiosyncrasies of far-flung deans limit the wide application of such an approach...