Word: likeliest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most complex areas (see story above), career men like Llewellyn E. Thompson were quietly and steadily at work last week. As for Kennedy's 28 "political" appointees, half come from education, law or journalism, while nine more come from other Government jobs. Three of the liveliest choices-and likeliest successes-among the new appointees are notable for their background, personality and high professional qualifications. The three...
Under the title "The Natural Americans," a five-page story describes Kennan, Reischauer (Japan), and Galbraith (India), as "three of the liveliest choices --and likeliest successes" among President Kennedy's 63 new ambassadors. "Their joint characteristics are frankness, sensitiveness to the nerves and taboos of their host countries, an eagerness to listen...and ill-concealed dislike of Embassy Row cocktail parties...
...Though the raid on Tokyo did little actual damage, Toland reports that Japanese officials were astonished to find that their capital was so vulnerable, concluded that the nation was likely to panic under sustained air attack. The result was the Japanese decision to invade Midway and the Aleutians, the likeliest U.S. bomber bases. Dangerously overextended, they blundered into the Battle of the Coral Sea, in which a U.S. task force sank a Japanese carrier, first major ship to be sunk by the Allies...
...satire of the Mao regime is being written in China-not the likeliest of propositions-it cannot bear much resemblance to this burlesque by C. Y. Lee, the Chinese-American author of The Flower Drum Song. Lee's view is light, slight and frequently funny, but it is that of an established expatriate; it lacks the edge that defiance and fear give to a work whose author risks arrest. Cripple Mah, Lee's addlepated hero, is protected by his Schweikian stupidity from the dangers of the new people's democratic dictatorship. There is no sense of immediacy...
When rumors spread throughout the oil world from Baghdad to Manhattan last week that Iraq, out of pique at Britain, was planning to nationalize its oil industry, worried oilmen instinctively turned their eyes to Rome, as Iraq's likeliest collaborator. There, in a modest Rome office, sits lean and nervous Enrico Mattei, 55, the chief of Italy's state-owned oil and gas monopoly, called E.N.I, (for Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi). By shrewdly bargaining with any government that wants to deal in oil, Mattei has made E.N.I, so powerful that Italians dub it "the state within the state...