Word: goode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the U.S. had voted to condemn apartheid, because "it has much the same racial setup inside its own borders." Warming to a favorite subject, Monty added that the trouble with Americans is that, instead of furnishing "sure leadership" to the West, they go around the world saying, "What good guys we are." Monty also confided that he wanted to examine the racial situation in South Africa, but in doing so did not plan to meet any nonwhite leaders. In any event, his mind seemed already made up, for he told South Africans, "You're going ahead with solving...
UNITED NATIONS Extending the "Presence" U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold believes in doing good by stealth. He has succeeded in unobtrusively widening the powers of his office by quiet persuasion in private, and by the courage to make imaginative leaps of authority, which he disguises in dull prose. He also considers his jumps well, and has an instinct for not going too far. Without formal instructions from General Assembly or Security Council, he sent a personal representative to be watchdog (a U.N. "presence," he preferred to call it) to Jordan in 1958, one to Thailand to settle a boundary dispute...
...exiled to the lonely Sese Islands, 30 miles offshore in Lake Victoria. The assembled advisers were not terribly impressed by the King's evidence, since they-and all Buganda-were well aware that the King wants to divorce Queen Damali so that he could marry his great and good friend, the Queen's unmarried sister Sarah, thus putting Sarah's two children in line for the throne...
...come to Brussels to accept a $2,000 award for his good works in Africa. In recent years it has become a pyramiding proposition: the more good works Medical Missionary Albert Schweitzer performs, the more money he gets to carry them forward faster. When he was greeted by an official party at the Prevoyance Sociale Building, Dr. Schweitzer exchanged pleasantries, then made his choice between an escalator and a flight of stairs to the fourth-floor scene of his new honor. Bemusing most of his greeters, Nobelman Schweitzer flew up the stairs, left those who had deferred...
...with us on a brief visit, said she was hungry and could get nothing to eat in the late evening. This was because she did not know how to go about it. And my son John found the icebox locked at night and was outraged. I think I know good food if I stop to think about it, but too often I do not stop to think about it, so I know I'm no great help to a housekeeper...