Word: loneliest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jordan. In the same anxious week a year ago, British troops returned to Jordan. The loneliest ruler in the Middle East when the British troops pulled out in the fall, 23-year-old King Hussein has held his shaky military regime together with his own courage and $50 million from the U.S. Nasser, caught up in a struggle for power with Kassem, has quit his vicious radio attacks on the little King, now talks of resuming relations with Jordan...
...Aloneness." brooded Poet W. H. Auden during a leaden hour of World War II, "is man's real condition." Nearly two decades later, the saga of Soviet Poet Boris (Doctor Zhivago) Pasternak suggests that the century's loneliest crowd consists of creative intellects behind Iron and .Bamboo Curtains. Even when these curtains rise briefly, as during the thaw that followed Stalin's death, they reveal strictly solitary singers. At one time or another, the authors represented in these two collections of protesting voices belonged to the chummy writers' cliques of Warsaw. Belgrade and other Red capitals...
Behind the flinty monolith of his public image stands a suspicious and emotional man, whose impulsiveness is generally held in check. Last week, at 83, under the duress of his days and years, der Alte came to his loneliest decision. Suddenly and dramatically, the greatest German Chancellor since Bismarck signified his readiness to give up his powerful office after ten years, for the more honorific post of President. It was his own decision, and yet the emotional overtones of his act showed that he was reluctantly anticipating a painful reality...
...clean-cut Como appeal runs from toddlers to dodderers. It is no surprise that convent TV sets glow for Como, that he was rated America's ideal husband in a poll of 20-year-old girls, or that three years ago he made Saturday night the loneliest night in the week for brilliant but irascible Jackie Gleason. Says a Kraftman: "Out in Arkansas, he's the type they want on a family program. Nobody else could do the trick...
...lose its own Chinese drivers. At another embassy a Chinese cook refused to bake a supply of cookies after he learned that a Dutchman was coming to dinner. Fearing that they too might get the treatment, foreign diplomats now tend to avoid the Dutch mission, which has become the loneliest diplomatic outpost in the world. Every fortnight or so The Hague gets a frantic cable from Slingenberg, protesting the circumstances. The Dutch, who see no way to help him out of his predicament, intend to leave him to his own devices until his transfer comes through next December...