Word: newsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resignation from the Army]. Censorship can be a line through words or a line through a country. Both have affected preparedness and the national security. Censorship can also be accomplished by little or no funds, and has been for 16 years in fourth-dimensional warfare training." Asked one puzzled newsman: "Does this mean you're advocating censorship, or did I miss the boat some place...
Noting his reliance on whites, a U.S. newsman nicknamed him "Uncle Tshombe." The advisers soon became a cause of controversy at the parley. Yelled Patrice Lumumba, a skinny,young firebrand from Stanleyville whose histrionics were already grabbing headlines: "I demand the immediate withdrawal from this conference room of all white advisers! Tshombe doesn't dare open his mouth until he has received a slip of paper from the European behind...
From a man who saw Brahms plain and studied under César Franck came a dirge for modern music. Asked by a London newsman which 20th century composers seemed likely to stand the test of time. Paris-born Maestro Pierre Monteux, 86, flatly replied: ''I don't see any, except perhaps Stravinsky." In a tart catalogue of inadequacies, the peppery new conductor of the London Symphony went on: "Mahler, he won't live; he's an imitator. Prokofiev, I don't think so. Shostakovich, no. Hindemith, no inspiration. Bartok: I give...
...wells. But he will be back by Christmas, confidently plans to administer the coup de grace to the Gassi Touil fire in early January, and then submit to the oil companies a bill that, including expenses, will run to several million dollars. "After talking to Adair," commented one Paris newsman last week, "my impression is that GT2 doesn't have a chance...
Reading his prepared questions from white cards, Adzhubei's general attitude was more that of a Soviet politician than that of a newsman; he was. by turns, both argumentative and patronizing. "We would be happy,'' he said, "if you, Mr. President, were to state that the interference in the affairs of Cuba was a mistake." Replied Kennedy: "Until the present government of Cuba will allow free and honest elections, it cannot claim to represent the majority of the people. That is our dispute with Cuba...