Word: known
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished...
...that sometimes spills over into pomposity. In civvies he sports a Malacca cane. He is something of a connoisseur of wines. He interlards his conversation with phrases out of Dickens or Thackeray, loves to write what he calls "erudite letters" (favorite word: vouchsafe). "If he will ever be known for any command, it will be for his command of the English language," said one officer who served on his staff, and Holloway adds to the impression when he tells his officers, in a neo-British accent, to "go bird-dog this thing," or "go with the speed of a deer...
West Germany. For days Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's government kept silent while Socialists scored the Anglo-American troop landings. Germans, with their own strong trade ties and commercial ambitions in the Arab Middle East, did not mind letting it be known that they were not involved. Adenauer, miffed at not being told in advance, was mollified when John Foster Dulles made a special trip to see him en route to a Baghdad Pact meeting...
...fact, little but the bare skeleton of his life and literature is known. He resolved to "write perfectly of beautiful happenings," and spewed forth fifteen volumes of a Biography, the endless reincarnation of Dom Manuel down through the centuries. He was unquestionably one of America's greatest writers--shrouded today in the anonymity of vogue...
...Middle East crisis and its threat to U.S. interests gave urgent importance to a vital but little known-and less used-safeguard for American companies abroad. The safeguard: a program under which the U.S. Government insures overseas investment against the classic risks of expropriation, blocked profits...