Word: observerer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On primary day last week, women trooped to the polls in unprecedented numbers. To the astonishment of almost every political observer, Mrs. Smith won. Her 63,000 votes were more than all her three opponents' combined. If she won the Maine election next September-as every G.O.P. candidate has...
Guatemala was not on the list, but Debayle was hopeful of ringing in at least a Guatemalan observer. It was Tacho's peace offer. With all Central America rumbling war and rebellion, he hoped his neighbors would take it. "Nicaragua is absolutely planning no aggression," he cried, stroking the...
* To which the Church of Rome will send an official "observer."
Your reviewer of Earl Schenck Miers' and Richard A. Brown's Gettysburg [TIME, May 31] does an injustice to the British observer with the Confederates, Colonel Arthur Fremantle, when applying the word "tactless" to Fremantle's remark to General Longstreet after the failure of Pickett's...
Colonel Fremantle's remark, "I wouldn't have missed this for anything," while inappropriate, was not tactless; for the observer was in ignorance of the tactical situation at the time, and erroneously supposed that he had arrived just in time to witness an attack. He was unaware, when...