Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent U.S. visit wearing a ten-gallon hat. "You see," he explained, "I am getting old now, and I'd like the people-including the Americans-to think of me as something more than a man who says no." The hat didn't fit, Molotov added, "but it's more important to have good publicity than to have a hat that fits...
Dwight Eisenhower showed himself entirely willing to treat them as decent fellows as long as they acted like decent fellows. But in two dramatic statements, he proved to the world that the Russians' hats did not quite fit...
...town to address the Imperial Potentate's Banquet at the annual Shrine Convention in Chicago, Shriner Harry Truman, 71, smilingly donned a fez with the jeweled insignia of his home Ararat Temple in Kansas City, Mo., declared himself "fit as a fiddle," rode for a time in the seven-hour-long Shriners' parade, then joined Governor William Stratton in the reviewing stand. Next day he paid a call on Adlai Stevenson, fresh from a hospital bed and a bout with bronchial pneumonia, agreed with him that "the best thing for the country is the Democratic Party...
Targets. Under its New Dealing publisher (a favorite Evans slogan: "No Republican is fit to hold public office"), the Tennessean hovered protectively over TVA, opposed Eisenhower mainly because Evans suspected the President did not favor further public-power expansion...
Prospects: Better. At his news conference, despite the muggy heat, Ike was crisp and cheerful. He wore a brown suit and purple-hued tie, looked tanned and fit. Adroitly, he fielded questions about a second term. When a newsman suggested that the cheering roadside crowds in New England meant that many people "would like to see you stand for re-election," Ike quipped: "You possibly saw my friends along the roads, and we don't know who was behind in the alleys." The newsmen roared...