Word: globe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Moscow after several strenuous days doing Tashkent, globe-trotting Eleanor Roosevelt, 72, spent an afternoon in bed with an upset stomach, dauntlessly rose in the evening for dinner at the Indian embassy...
Cowell's globe-girdling tour began as a sabbatical, but before he got through, he found himself lecturing in a dozen Eastern cities, endowing a Cowell cup at the Madras Academy of Music, giving piano-lecture recitals on modern American music. In Damascus, his planned arrival was announced by leaflets dusted over the city by low-flying planes...
...with the task of applying newsmagazine techniques to daily reporting, went Arthur Twining Hadley II, Yale '49, onetime (1950-56) staffer on Newsweek. Other additions: Society Gossipist Charles Ventura, longtime international-set reporter for the New York World-Telegram and Sun; Elmo Wilson's World Poll, first globe-girdling opinion survey to appear in any U.S. daily; Newsweek Staffer Terry Ferrer as education editor...
...unanimous "deep concern lest Syria should become a base for further threatening the independence and integrity of the region." State spread carefully publicized word that it was speeding up shipments of U.S. arms to Iraq, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon, presumably to meet the needs of the crisis. C124 Globe-masters began trundling the first loads of recoilless antitank rifles from Greece and Libya to Jordan-nothing much to win a war with, but a fair symbol of the atom-packed Sixth Fleet that lay somewhere below the horizon offshore...
Circling the many-colored globe where their joint problems lie, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff posed for their first group picture since General Nathan Twining took over as chairman from Admiral Arthur Radford...