Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever the faults of world leadership may have been, we now have "scientific fanatics" at the helm, with the fiendish ambition to propel humans into outer space...
...step up to the presidency from the chancellorship, a post Erhard expected to inherit. The Economics Minister hastened home from Washington, angered not only by der Alte's cavalier change of mind but by numerous recent Adenauer slurs on Erhard's qualifications for West Germany's leadership. Alighting at Düsseldorf after an appropriately dramatic flight-his plane developed engine trouble, then was struck by lightning-Erhard threatened to resign from the Cabinet and denounced some "current lies." For one thing, he said, "I will fight the historical lie that I am less reliable and less...
...question now," said one Italian journalist at week's end, "is how much does everybody want?" At least a month of close bargaining among Sicily's eight parties lies ahead. Milazzo, the man with the balance of power, would scarcely be content with anything less than leadership of Sicily's next coalition government...
...Douglas Dillon, U.S. Under Secretary of State LL.D. Citation: "In a troubled time, you provide the priceless quality of quiet, distinguished leadership...
...strangest union meetings to be found anywhere. Ranged on one side of a bitter leadership battle was a fading movie actress supported by her floor leader and lieutenant, a goateed mind reader. On the opposite side was a former nightclub pitchman supported by fire-eaters, sword-swallowers and comics. As a flock of Washington reporters perched outside the Pall Mall Room of the Hotel Raleigh, the annual meeting of the American Guild of Variety Artists grew as raucous as anything that ever happened on a carny midway...