Word: newsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Judd was surprised to be chosen to make the keynote speech but not at a loss for words. "I started writing that speech in 1942," he told a newsman. Which means that Walter Judd knows why he is a Republican, why he calls himself a "progressive conservative," and why he thinks Republicans are the best folks to entrust with the management of the nation's domestic and foreign affairs. He intends to see that the nation knows...
...York's 96-vote delegation to the convention uninstructed and uncommitted. In return he agreed to announce his availability for a draft. "Drafts come very seldom in this country." he duly announced, "but if a draft should come, I would be greatly honored, and I would accept." A newsman asked whether he was planning just to "sit by an open window waiting for a draft." Replied Rocky: "No. the office is air-conditioned...
REUTLING'S CHALLENGING NEW POST AS MANAGING EDITOR (SUNDAY) IS NO PASTURE, BUT WILL DEMAND SAME ENERGY AND VERVE THAT HAVE LONG MADE HIM A TOP NEWSMAN...
Shirttails flapping, the white-faced Premier dogtrotted into the square with his aides at his heels. In the square Menderes found old President Bayar waiting in his Cadillac. The two embraced. There were tears in Menderes' eyes. Friends pushed the Premier into a newsman's Volkswagen, and the little car inched forward to a point where some 100 of Menderes' Democratic partisans were gathered. But when the Premier climbed out, students rushed up to shout "Freedom!" Menderes gave up. Climbing into a third car, he rode away to the presidential palace and the end of the wildest...
...aging Kipling Stripling, Captain Scott (Kenneth More), and to follow him he assembles an improbable rout of colonial types: the pudgy little rajah (Govind Raja Ross), his noisy American governess (Lauren Bacall), the British governor's unflappable wife (Ursula Jeans) and dithering secretary (Wilfrid Hyde White), a nefarious newsman (Herbert Lorn), two stolid Sikhs attached to primordial machine guns, a charming person (I.S. Johar) who runs locomotives, and an unspeakable person (Eugene Deckers) who runs guns. They all pile into an ancient passenger car drawn by a wondrously dilapidated steam engine called "Victoria"-apparently because it was built...