Word: jangledness
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Most Washington correspondents were already in bed last week when their telephones jangled with the cryptic midnight summons: "This is the White House. Mr. Short will have an announcement at 1 o'clock." Getting into their clothes, the disheveled newsmen hustled to the darkened White House. They had not...
To George Marshall it was an old story. Under the bright floodlights in the marble-pillared Senate caucus room, he sat quietly, facing the microphone. But energetic Anna Rosenberg, seated beside him, making her first appearance on Capitol Hill as Assistant Secretary of Defense, was never still. She toyed constantly...
All business stopped. Bells jangled and clerks scoured the Hill. It was almost three hours before a bare quorum could be collected out of homes, department stores, restaurants and offices (many came loaded down with Christmas packages). By that time, House leaders thought better of making an issue of it...
Trygve Lie's telephone in New York City's suburban Forest Hills jangled in the small hours. On the line, as he had been in the small hours of June 25, was fast-moving Ernest A. Gross, deputy U.S. representative on the Security Council. This time Ernie Gross...
All week, nerves jangled with the strain of uncertainty and bad news. Once, the Senate was startled when a grey, hooded figure rose in the gallery, intoning sepulchrally: "I am here to warn you." The lady, who said she was "the phantom of the past," was hustled off by Capitol...