Word: highhandedness
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The revolution began at midnight and was over within six hours. Shortly before dawn, radios rasped: "The Turkish armed forces have taken over the administra tion of the country." Thus, in a blink of history's eye, ended the ten-year rule of highhanded, dictatorial Premier Adnan Menderes.
As bright and smiling as the Washington spring day. South Korea's Ambassador You Chan Yang showed up at the State Department one day last week in answer to a summons from Secretary Christian Herter. Thirty minutes later he emerged glumly. Within the hour. State Department Press Officer Lincoln...
Brains & Tongues. The heads of colleges may not have meant to be highhanded, but that was what they seemed to a dabbling of dons. On the inspiration of Hugh Trevor-Roper, disputatious Regius Professor of modern history (The Last Days of Hitler), the dons found themselves with a candidate of...
Such nice legalities did not bother ex-President Harry Truman. "This act of provocation is intended missile invasion of the Pacific," said he, in Phoenix, Ariz. "This action is as highhanded as it is brazen." Said Montana's Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield: "I am requesting the State Department to...
A VERY BRUNDAGE of Chicago made his millions in the building business and his fame in sports as perennial president of the U.S. and later International Olympics. Even before 1936 (when he fired Eleanor Holm from the Olympic swimming team for sipping champagne) and until last week (when he insisted...