Word: gladding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turn over an old leaf, the Freshman Yearbook is like the party for twenty-five year old debutantes. Everyone is glad to see it, but by the time it arrives all the faces are already similar...
Attlee." As usual, his words were unexciting but got their emphasis from a certain waspishness of voice. Of the Big Four meeting: "We are all glad to see this rather delayed improvement . . ." "Clem," summed up one old party man, "is the greatest asset we have." A pipe-smoking, Christian, suburban respectability is his appeal...
...author without actually tampering with the text." In ex-Critic Potter's sardonic view, the problem boils down to showing that "you yourself . . . should have written the book, if you had the time, and since you hadn't, you are glad that someone has. although it is obvious that it might have been done better." In reviewing nonfiction written by a specialist. Potter advises: "If all else fails [find] at least two arguably misplaced punctuation marks, then say . . . 'If, as we hope, there is to be a second edition, certain small errors and inconsistencies...
Academic Cease-Fire. Ike reminded the reporters that Secretary of State Dulles had said "We would not discuss the affairs of the Chinese Nationalists behind their backs, but that if-as a test of good intent -if the Chicom† wanted to talk merely about ceasefire, we would be glad to meet with them and talk with them, but there would be no conferring about the affairs of the Chinese Nationalists." Carefully selecting his words, the President explained why, in his view, a cease-fire discussion need not involve the Nationalists. "So far as I know, the Chinese Nationalists...
...Time in Berlin. The last great push to Berlin cost the Red army a million casualties. Zhukov arrived, tough and imperturbable, fully conscious of his great feat, but also plainly glad that the war was over. In Berlin, Zhukov met General Eisenhower. Wrote Ike in Crusade in Europe: "I thought Marshal Zhukov an affable and soldierly-appearing individual . . . There was discernible only an intense desire to be friendly and cooperative." Zhukov won the respect of almost all the Allied generals, but between himself and Eisenhower there was genuine affection. "That friendship was a personal and an individual thing," wrote...