Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neither as an accused nor as a penitent nor as a suppliant." and added that his government saw "no reason for any basic change" in its racial policies. That afternoon, when Louw took the same line at his promised informal meeting with the Prime Ministers, Malaya's normally genial Tengku Abdul Rahman walked out in a rage, called his own press conference to announce: "I shall invite the attention of all Asian and African countries to this impasse." Although his walkout was the first in the history of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conferences, the Tengku clearly...
...landed in Washington in 1929 with a lot of debts and a warm and winning personality. Mississippi's late Senator Pat Harrison, a titan of the early New Deal, introduced him around, and soon Allen's sallies were the talk of the town. Before long the plump, genial young man was a close friend of Franklin Roosevelt. Although F.D.R. was never a great admirer of Allen's broad humor, he esteemed his "100% loyalty" and his political insight. In 1933 Roosevelt appointed Allen one of the three commissioners who administer the District of Columbia...
...Genial George Allen had no comment on Truman's story. Instead, he helicoptered off to Gettysburg with Ike for a weekend of golf...
...Word to the Cops. By afternoon, Rhee called in Army Chief of Staff Lieut. General Song Yo Chan and placed Seoul under martial law. Rumbling into town with old Sherman tanks, the 15th ROK Infantry Division took over from the hated police. Genial, able General Song was firm, but his sympathies clearly lay with the students. "Call on me any time," he told a student delegation. As for the police, he warned bluntly: "Policemen found beating, torturing or abusing anyone will be dealt with under martial...
...genial, roly-poly man who glories in the title "most independent of the Independents," Canon Kir is a much-decorated, bullet-scarred hero of France's World War II Resistance, during which he helped more than 5,000 French prisoners escape the Germans. He spends little time in the mayor's office, can more often be found directing Dijon's traffic, perched at the top of a fireman's ladder, or passing the time of day in a workers' bistro. Convinced that Khrushchev's professed desire to end the cold war must be taken...