Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rumor had run through the hall that Britain had agreed to drop her demand for international controls of the canal, but Sir Anthony's comments were designed to set Tory hearts at rest on that matter. Warning against "hasty or optimistic judgment," he said that "wide differences of opinion" remain. Then, in a passage that pleased the bit-chomping "Suez Group" M.P.s, Eden concluded: "President Eisenhower at his press conference Thursday is reported to have said that you must have peace with justice or it is not peace. I agree with these words. That is why we have always...
...Private or not, a lot of Yugoslav Communists were being told, officially and in gossip, what had happened at Yalta. "There was one unexpected thing," a Tito penman confessed in the official party organ Borba. "The letter circulated [by the Soviet Communists] to the [satellite] Communist parties . . . expressed the opinion [that] our country and its leadership is not Marxist. [This] is not in the spirit of the . . . Moscow declaration on relations between the Yugoslav Communists and the Soviet Communist Party...
...president last week for his seventh term. Last summer Dr. Fry, chairman of the central committee of the World Council of Churches was in Galyatetö, near Budapest, for a meeting of the committee (TIME, Aug. 13). Rehabilitation was in the air and the Reds were courting the good opinion of the West; Dr. Fry seized his chance. He opened direct negotiations with the Hungarian government. Together with World Council Secretary W. A. Visser 't Hooft and Lutheran Bishop Hanns Lilje of Hannover, Dr. Fry made many a hurried trip between Galyatetö and Budapest and sat through many...
Lubell's "impressionistic" technique of predicting how the U.S. will vote and why rests on interviews with only 3,500 to 4,000 families in each campaign. But he believes that his method is better than public-opinion polls. The pollsters try to get a census cross section in taking their samplings-a method that Lubell regards as rigid and superficial. Instead, Lubell goes on the theory that people vote according to group interests, sectional, economic, ethnic, religious. He charts and studies election returns in every U.S. county and most big-city precincts, as far back as the last...
...letter to the Sunday New York Times, Galbraith termed obsolete the concept that "military manpower must be produced cheaply." Since the United States can now afford the amount necessary to pay a volunteer force, the draft survives, in Galbraith's opinion, "principally as a device by which we use compulsion to get young men to serve at less than the market rate...