Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third party has still to be brought around: Israel's David Ben-Gurion, who wants political rewards for surrendering his military gains. Ben-Gurion, from past experience, has a low opinion of Hammarskjold's famed diplomatic technique. In the Israeli view, Hammarskjold thinks that situations can be solved merely by formulating them...
Though Anthony Eden seems to be coming safely through his political crisis over Suez, Britain's economic day of reckoning is still to come. "It's easy enough to rally the roast-beef opinion of the country," said one disillusioned Tory last week, "but the fact is, we're in a helluva mess. We haven't a shred left in the Middle East, and not much anywhere else...
...literary opinion ("This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have"), a thank-you note ("Thank you for your nice present. I always wanted a pin cushion, although not very much"), or a get-well verse to teacher...
...give him an income of $200,000 a day, Facts Forum billed itself as a "nonpartisan, nonpolitical educational organization." But in its monthly Facts Forum News (reported circ. 100,000), a clutter of radio and TV shows, e.g., Reporters' Roundup, Topic of the Week, and widely distributed "public-opinion" polls, Hunt's nonprofit-and tax-free-foundation promoted a far-right, McCarthyist line that saw "dangerously radical tendencies" in the Republican Party (TIME, Jan. 11, 1954). As he folded all the projects, paid off employees and bought up outstanding contracts, publicity-shy Hunt kept mum as usual...
...Supreme Court wrote no opinion outlining its reasons for upholding the lower-court decision. But its technical approval had the unhappy effect of putting Holophane-and possibly other companies -in a position of double jeopardy. By competing abroad, Holophane leaves itself open to law suits in Britain and France, where courts may not recognize the jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court. Commented the Wall Street Journal: "The four justices who voted against the decision . . . must content themselves with observing of the Supreme Court what Alice said of herself: 'Curiouser and curiouser! Now I'm opening out like...