Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Victory for the U.S. came in the eleventh-hour style of Frank Merriwell, a U.S. Olympian most Russians never heard of. Among the point-grabbers...
...were the lethal exchanges between Gromyko, as inflexible as granite, and U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, as impersonally stern as a veteran headmaster. Poland's bristling Stefan Wierblowski provided drama when, overruled, he remained on the stand, quivering with indignation and spluttering protests, but powerless against the Olympian calm of Acheson...
...palm-slim waist as well as the effusive adulation belong to a green-eyed, reddish-haired young woman in the bare shade of 30 named Ava Lavinia Gardner. Movie bigwigs, whose vocabularies are more limited, put their praises in calmer terms than Serior Cabre. But from the Olympian executives in the Bel Air hills to the plebeian pressagents down on Wilshire Boulevard, the consensus is that Ava Gardner may well turn out to be the best thing for Hollywood since the late Jean Harlow...
...China, and the more they are expressed and manifested in this House, the more harm is done to our relations with the U.S. After all, the U.S. is doing 19/20ths of the work and suffering losses of 50 and 60 to 1 compared to us." Demanded Churchill with Olympian anger: "[Is it] worthwhile to go on nagging and haggling and higgling with the U.S. over a lot of details . . . creating ill will...
...Olympian View. For Juan Perón, such personal interventions have grown increasingly rare. Nowadays he prefers to cultivate an Olympian air that keeps him somewhat above the humdrum scene. When he steps forward, it may be for some such purpose as opening the Pan-American games, or announcing that an Argentine laboratory has produced atomic energy...