Word: handed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came haltingly down the ramp from Columbine III one evening last week at the Military Air Transport Service terminal in Washington. At the bottom of the steps President Eisenhower watched solicitously as he waited for his visitor. Then, with Churchill triumphant, Eisenhower stepped forward and thrust out his hand. "Hello, my friend," he said. "Glad to see you back again." Churchill, noticeably composing himself, replied: "I am indeed glad...
Jack Cabot is a Harvardman ('23) and Oxonian ('25), a good tennis and squash-rackets player, who tastefully collects art objects from around the world, and has a proper, frosty appearance. But the frost melts away when he smiles and stretches out a huge hand in greeting. He speaks five languages (French, Spanish, Portuguese, English and German), and in more than 30 years of U.S. diplomacy has led a fast-moving life in Latin America, Europe and Asia. Items...
...house in the capital's Cleveland Park section. Mason's assignment: to pick up Deputy Defense Secretary Donald A. Quarles and deliver him to a 7:45 a.m. television date on Dave Garroway's Today show at the NBC studios. Ordinarily, punctual Don Quarles was on hand when his car rolled up; this time Mason settled down to wait. Then he noticed the morning newspaper still lying on the doorstep. Walking uncertainly into the quiet house, he found Donald Aubrey Quarles, 64, dead in his bed of a heart attack...
...over Soviet Armenia last September, Khrushchev got into his limousine and drove out to the $5,000,000 U.S. exhibition site in Moscow's Sokolniki Park. Accompanied by U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr., who had only an hour and a half's warning to be on hand, and trailed by a horde of Soviet and foreign journalists and an ever-growing crowd of curious workmen, Khrushchev ranged over the bulldozer-torn exhibition area, squeezing under low girders and heaving his hefty bulk across muddy drainage trenches with a nimbleness that belied reports that he has been...
...Here is a story of a strange world and some troubled people," the dust jacket proclaims, "written by a young man who knows them at first hand." But how does Zane know them? Does he care? Does he approve? Does he condemn? Indeed, for the reader, does it matter? Wyeth and Steiner ultimately appear trivial and absurd. A child, at least, grows up; but the down-and-outs in Easy Living are adults gone to seed. They are grown men and women romping in diapers, shouting to attract our attention, aware of our criticism, scornful of our values, yet forever...