Word: oaken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...casts him as a theatrical producer, a sort of oaken image of Mike Todd. He has two phones in his car, spends an annual $785 in the barbershop and has an ex-wife (Lilli Palmer) who hovers about to protect her alimony, always remembering the anniversary of their divorce; she once gave him a hot-water bottle that snored. At 56, age is closing in. He wears a wrist alarm clock; when it goes off, it is time to take his pills...
...decade since he became Chancellor of West Germany, oaken-faced Konrad Adenauer has acquired in the minds of his countrymen the stature of a stern father-awe-inspiring, sometimes overrigid, the living symbol of righteous and unshakable purpose. But, though the public has seldom seen it, there is an obverse side to Adenauer's character: a nagging, emotional mistrustfulness that can convert him in the blink of an eye to a man of angry impulse. Last week Konrad Adenauer, 83, gave full rein to his impulsiveness and by doing so flawed an unsurpassed international reputation for rock-like consistency...
...Warrior. Germany's oaken Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had come "to accompany my old friend on his final journey." Australia's Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies was there, and Madame Chiang Kaishek, U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold, NATO's Secretary-General Paul Henri Spaak, 14 foreign ministers, envoys from all of Washington's 83 foreign missions. From Tokyo, Japan's Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama had made a hurried flight halfway around the world to pay his last respects to the architect of the Japanese peace treaty. From Geneva, the Big Four foreign ministers-Christian Herter, Selwyn...
...Today and Tomorrow." The study is manifestly a scholar's lair. Ceiling-high, Pompeian red bookcases line three walls; the fourth is decked with framed pictures of Lippmann friends, living and dead: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill, Georges Clemenceau. A snow of documents mantles the oaken desk...
...Irish air as he searched musty closets for machine-guns, hashish, Radcliffe girls and other contraband. It is the memory of leather magazine covers, tattered around the edges by the leisurely passing of time in the House common room. It is the memory of the indecisive rap on the oaken door and the diffident request to please modulate the sound on the record player. But perhaps paramount in my catalogue of memories is the greatest of these familiar symbols of fellowship--fellowship itself...