Word: mated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheery Adlai Stevenson into the microphones at Chicago's Midway Airport. The time was 8:15 a.m. At his side, Estes Kefauver chimed in: "I don't usually get up this early." But, added Estes, "I'm going to do so to accommodate my wonderful running mate...
...bamboo thickets-he is inspired to his masterpiece of zoological warfare: he coils a dead mamba on Helen's dressing table. He is betting on the mamba's being not only a fearsome and deadly reptile, but one with the habit of seeking its dead mate. The relict of the dead mamba arrives on schedule and bites Helen in the neck. She dies in a few seconds. Whereupon "I", moved to a mamba-like revenge, ambushes Henry in the jungle and shoots him as dead as Hemingway's Mrs. Francis Macomber shot Mr. Francis Macomber...
...Republican Convention on TV, frequently jotting down notes and statements which he handed to Press Aide Roger Tubby. There were endless conferences with his staff on both organizational and political matters. Result: Master Strategist Jim Finnegan (TIME, Aug. 27) was named campaign manager for both Adlai and Running Mate Estes Kefauver; onetime (1946) Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt, who headed Stevenson's 1952 campaign, became "personal adviser" and "Coordinator of the Campaign Division"; Washington Attorney George Ball was designated "Coordinator of Public Relations"; Clayton Fritchey, longtime newsman (Cleveland Press, New Orleans Item), took leave from his job as deputy chairman...
Fool's Mate. Kennan's book begins by evoking the grimness of the Russian scene seen at its capital, Petrograd, where at every hand "one feels the proximity of the great wilderness of the Russian north-silent, somber, infinitely patient." Lenin and Trotsky were emerging as the main figures on that somber scene. These agile clever, ruthless and dedicated men-Stalin was still a poisonous penumbra on the horizon of history-were theoretically bent on directing Russia as an ally of the U.S. and the Anglo-French alliance against imperial Germany and Austria. The problem...
...Bolsheviks won this game of chess by a fool's mate. The fools, of one sort or another, were the gullible men of the Western embassies. In the evening of Nov. 7, 1917, the Czar's Winter Palace was "stormed"-by the back door. Kennan sardonically notes, for, amid the confusion and vacillation of the defenders, someone had inadvertently left the back door open. At the time, British Ambassador Sir George Buchanan was gloomily watching artillery from the River Neva (blanks from the Russian cruiser Aurora, usually credited with a main role in the palace's capture...