Word: missteps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Profumo was not that he was indiscreet and a potential security risk, but that he lied to the House of Commons in initially denying any relationship with Christine. Moreover, he lied stupidly, since he might have saved his dignity and his seat as an M.P. by admitting his misstep. As a limerick that made the rounds of West minster last week...
Under both Eisenhower and Kennedy, Thompson's toughest, longest job has been protecting, without a misstep, the allied position in beleaguered West Berlin. Ever since November 1958, when Khrushchev issued his first ultimatum ordering Western troops to quit the city. Thompson spent endless hours explaining that-despite Kennedy's willingness to offer some concessions-the West would not be bargained or bullied out of Berlin...
...natural enterprise. Today it is carried on by the U.S. in a world where friends can be more frustrating than foes, where, as far as U.S. aid is concerned, most nations assume that it is more blessed to receive than to give, where every step is shadowed and every misstep exploited by the Communists (who are probably the leading modern exponents of the 17th century notion that a diplomat is an "honorable...
...swaggers forward, the back stabber lies in wait; the party hack mumbles Yes, sir; the man above party shouts Never! In the play's high-stake memory test, wherein the nominee's years-ago Communist flirtation is set against his chief assailant's years-ago sexual misstep, the one man would kill anyone to win, the other man kills himself. The play's more personal scenes-they are fortunately few-are by all odds its weakest. And straight on from the telltale letter left loose in an open drawer, Advise and Consent far oftener obeys...