Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cosying up to Pakistan's No. 1 enemy, Nehru's India. Last week, when a New York Times reporter made the conventional assumption, in the form of a question, that all of Asia and Africa stood behind Nasser, forthright Hussein Suhrawardy compressed his reply-and his current opinion of Egypt-into one word: "Phooey...
...letter appearing in TIME, Nov. 19 under the signature of the Rev. Paul Bernhardt, First Baptist Church, Elmira, N.Y. I did not write any letter to your magazine, nor did anyone on my staff; and furthermore no one was authorized to use our official stationery in expressing his personal opinion on the British-French entry into Egypt...
Strangely Irked. When Hoover Sr. became Secretary of Commerce, Herter went to Washington as his personal assistant, then moved to Boston as co-owner and co-editor of Henry Ward Beecher's old magazine of opinion, the Independent. A Republican, Herter saw to it that the Independent championed the League of Nations and word-whipped Massachusetts' Isolationist Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge...
...banquet in the Peloponnesian city of Kalamata last week, King Paul of Greece casually broke the first rule of conduct for modern monarchs: he expressed a personal political opinion. Horrified by the slaughter in Hungary, the outspoken King called for a relentless fight against Communism, which he called "the enemy of all humanity...
Died. Geoffrey Parsons, 77, longtime (1924-52) chief editorial writer for the New York Herald Tribune, who won the Pulitzer Prize (1942) for "clearness of style, moral purpose and power to influence public opinion"; in Manhattan...