Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither were they cheered by the fact that Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson, who has enough trouble with the farmers, performed a kind of ritual sacrifice by gulping down a bowl of cranberries in public to show that he was behind the industry. In Wisconsin, Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy loyally tossed...
The Suspicious Ones. The Western alliance was not splitting apart by any means, but it was riding off in all directions last week. Some found this a cause for handwringing. Others saw it as the result of natural rivalries once the crisis pressure for an immediate summit was off.
In one month, der Alte had received at least two letters from President Eisenhower, one from Premier Khrushchev and several from President de Gaulle, and hugged them to himself. He treated Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano highhandedly, ordering him to draft communications, then editing and sending them off without bothering...
Off with Their Feet. Last week Belgium announced that it intended to do just that. And at almost the same moment, civil war broke out in Ruanda. A minor quarrel between a subchief of the Muhutus and a group of Watutsis sparked bloody incidents all over the country. Armed bands...
Prime Minister Jawaharfal Nehru last week celebrated his 70th birthday with jaunty self-confidence. To newsmen who asked him for some words of wisdom for New Delhi's schoolchildren, he replied, "A birthday message? That sounds very pompous." Then, accepting a last garland of flowers from a little girl...