Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Michigan's brash, young (44) Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams shocked a roomful of political reporters (who do not shock easily) by answering a press-conference question-as to whether President Eisenhower would run again-in this candid manner: "There are so many things that can happen in this life. For example, he's an old man (64). He might die before the campaign begins." While reporters boggled, Soapy went on: "I mean Stevenson or any of us might die before that time. I think that at this early date the situation has not fully jelled. Any number...
...that would last for 18 hours (seven days a week). His wavy black hair, streaked at the temples with silver, was meticulously combed. The talcum was in place. He wore the tinted glasses that are his trademark. He sat at a grey, formica-topped kitchen table and, in the manner of a man aware of his clothes, hiked up his big shoulders, thereby pulling up his coat-sleeves to reveal his gleaming cufflinks. Passing through the kitchen was De Sapio's 17-year-old daughter Geraldine (whose fierce pride in her father has led to her attaching...
...provide exactly the same facilities for us, and we to make these examinations." The ifs and buts would have to wait; the details could be picked over later. What matters, said Ike, is that Russia and the U.S., with their "new and terrible weapons," could in this simple manner "convince the world that we are providing, as between ourselves, against the possibility of great surprise attack, thus lessening danger and relaxing tension...
...banker and the lawyer first fawn upon him, then try to threaten and bully him out of town? Since this is a "novel of suspense," such questions inevitably come up but are left simmering until the final chapters. Meanwhile, the fictional characters can be kept scurrying through all manner of apparently unmotivated but obviously hazardous activities...
Watching Bulganin take hold of his new job as Premier, Moscow's foreign diplomats have been impressed by his relaxed manner and self-confidence. Once, referring to Stalin (six months after Stalin's death). Bulganin remarked casually: "He messed everything up." To one veteran U.S. observer, Bulganin seems "reasonable, intelligent and able." "He talks freely about delicate problems," said a Dispatch to the Quai d'Orsay. "He is a master at creating an atmosphere of relaxed tension." Recently, before deciding to go himself to Geneva, Khrushchev remarked at a garden party: "I trust Bulganin...