Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...useless Eisenhower, who is now advocating just what Eden did, and the British-hating Dulles. Contrary to what the press would have the U.S. people believe, we in Britain hate your guts and have done so ever since your "good, clean-living American boys" swaggered into England. Our opinion of them is brief: overfed, overpaid, oversexed and over here...
Both Dulles and he had made mistakes, Ike conceded, but he had had no reason to change his high opinion of the Secretary of State. And in any event, said he, sending his definition of command responsibility ringing round Capitol Hill and the world: "Secretary Dulles . . . has never taken any action which I have not in advance approved. I insist again that these matters are not taken spasmodically, impulsively. They are not policies developed off of top-of-the-head thinking. They take weeks and weeks, and when they come out, and are applied, they have my approval from...
...nation Assembly, in which 27 Asian-African votes can block any decisive action, justice is a sometime thing. After canvassing lobby opinion in the U.N.'s glass-walled conference building for two days (WEST PLOTTING BEHIND-SCENES CONSPIRACY, headlined Cairo's semiofficial Al Ahram), the U.S.'s Henry Cabot Lodge drafted two compromise resolutions. One repeated for the sixth time the Assembly's demand for Israeli withdrawal. The other called vaguely for "the placing of the UNEF on the Egyptian-Israeli armistice demarcation line...
...race was on, and the Socialists, already a point or two ahead in the latest opinion polls, were off to a strong start. The genuineness of their conversion to the Western alliance might be questioned, but it was instructive to see where they thought the most votes...
...writer of Wilson's calibre demands of the reader a serious and fruitful consideration of his own beliefs, and this is certainly close to the optimum effect that an essayist can hope to achieve. If he cannot convince, he can at least force the reader to scrutinize his own opinion, and perhaps to modify it. In this, Wilson succeeds admirably...