Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Improvising. For an 8,000-word document as cunningly loaded with distortions of the past and with booby traps for the future, the notes that Moscow had sent gave off an air of improvisation. Only the day before, Secretary Dulles -no mean lawyer-had suggested, with the hint of a smile, that the note might have been so long delayed because Soviet lawyers had to correct Khrushchev's initial impetuosity...
South Africa's policy, DuPlessis maintained, is shaped by the belief that "the fact that all men are equal does not mean that all men are the same." Furthermore, two things must be regarded in formulating any plan: the conditions of life, which in South Africa are different from anywhere else, and the needs engendered by these facts, he said...
Originaly Cyprus involved only Great Britain and Greece. Greek Cypriots (comprising four-fifths of the 500,000 total population of the island) claimed the right of self-determination, which everybody knew would mean eventual "enosis"--union with Greece. Not surprisingly, the Athens government supported this claim. Britain, on the other hand, was reluctant to surrender control of the island--because of its military importance, she said. Also behind the British stand, one suspects, was an unexpressed feeling that her colonial world was crumbling on all sides, and that somewhere the business had to be stopped...
...wait a minute. Careful there, Mack, you're stepping on my sneakers ... I hear ya' man, don't snap your elbows on my ear ... I mean, like don't push ... the jacket, the jacket, man, you're wrinkling the bird; that's an engraved eagle ... okay, okay, I'm going ... the hula hoop is choking me ... acchhh...
...just more likely to control their own state's convention votes than any outsider. And so the leading Democratic prospects in 1960 are Meyner of New Jersey, Pat Brown of California, Soapy Williams of Michigan, Faubus of Arkansas, and Happy Chandler of Kentucky. Of course, precedent doesn't mean a thing, and Adlai, even without any favorite-son backing from Illinois, could be the choice of a convention unable to decide among a host of mediocrities. The 1924 convention, deadlocked between Smith and McAdoo, turned to Davis, also a corporation lawyer, who had nothing resembling the national fame Stevenson...