Word: maneuverers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everyone could. The suspicious, humorless Soviet crews arrived in France festooned with "secret" instruments (i.e., stopwatches, portable altimeters, audio-timers that would sound a warning buzz in time to pull the ripcord, safety devices for opening chutes automatically at minimum altitude). They brought along three political tutors: an army colonel...
He told them this bill was a "corner stone" of the President's program and that no Republican could vote against it and claim to be an Eisenhower supporter at election time. Then Joe collected on more than 30 of the many I.O.U.s he holds, for favors he has...
"We'll Win." If the Communists choose to try to get the Peking Reds into the U.N. on the premise that it is not an important matter, then they would need only a simple majority of 31 votes to establish the unimportance of the issue, the same number to...
In Denver on his first extended tour of the West, vacationing Student Arthur MacArthur, 16, son of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, was cornered by newsmen at a hotel, promptly showed an inherited talent for maneuver. Photographers slyly tried to get the lad to pose directly before several framed...
"But," said he, "it . . . depends on you to a large extent whether in the uncertain sky of Lake Geneva a healthy wind will blow away the clouds ..." Then from the Radical Socialist benches came the voice of ambitious Economist Pierre Mendès-France, most outspoken advocate of the theory...