Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flipped to the RADIO & TELEVISION section, and did a double take. There, in a story about a British Broadcasting Corp. television show, was a picture of 22-year-old Isabel Bigley. "The story said she was good and the picture looked right," remembers Ernie, "so I asked my partner [Cy Feuer] to look her up in London...
...President, who has been heard to call Axis Junior Partner Francisco Franco a rascal-among other things-made no attempt to hide his continuing contempt for Spain's dictator. He said his attitude toward Spain hasn't changed one bit. But Harry Truman, like many other people, was beginning to be less & less choosy about allies. Franco, after all, sits in a strategic position in the Mediterranean and in Europe, and he has 22 divisions, though his troops are poorly armed and he himself is of dubious dependability. As his ambassador, the President chose Stanton Griffis, onetime Ambassador...
Nonetheless, Ross was glad to have his old friend as a partner on such a tough police case. Kirkes, a handsome, strapping fellow, knew everybody in Carpinteria, where his father had been pastor of the Community Church. Patrolman Kirkes was himself a good churchman, the father of a six-year-old youngster, a helper in Boy Scout activities, and member of the Lions Club. He was pretty bright, too: a Vanderbilt University graduate (letterman in football and basketball), he had been top man in his examination for the California state highway patrol...
...granted further recognition. Now, with his appointment of an ambassador, Truman has started down the road to full support. The "realistic" arguments of the Spain-supporters are finally sinking in. For years their rationale has been: that Spain is an essential stronghold against Communism; that France is a strong partner and can be stronger with U.S. help; that the alternative to fascism in Spain is Communism...
...until the reservoirs of moral and material strength within the French nation are turned into the stream of European defense, there will be no all-out effort, and NATO's new outline for action may result in too little, too late. As the senior partner in West Europe's defense, the U.S. this week was facing the duty and the right of insisting on a serious French rearmament effort...