Word: passionateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from under John Foster Dulles (TIME, May 31), sent Anthony Eden into the void, and praised as "skilled diplomacy" his lunching and dining with the Communists in search of kind words and gentle concessions. Aging Winston Churchill still pined for some grand settlement; his admirers worried that this passion might cause his great career to be darkened in its last days, as Franklin Roosevelt's was by Yalta...
When she was only five years old, the collector's passion seized Victoria Mary Augusta Louisa Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, Princess of Teck. She began hoarding Christmas cards, and throughout a long and energetic life as Britain's Queen Mary, she kept collecting. Before her death last year at the age of 85, she had assembled one of the most splendiferous royal collections of objets d'art in history...
Unlike other historians, Author Mitford believes that "sincère et tendre Pompadour" (Voltaire's description) did all she did for love of the King, not because she was ambitious. Her weakness-a terrifying one for a royal mistress-was that she was "constitutionally incapable of passion." "She tried to work herself up to respond to the King's ardors by every means known to quackery"-diets of vanilla, truffles and celery, "elixirs" guaranteed to "heat the blood." Nobody knows how far she succeeded, but Louis adored her even when he had turned for his pleasure to what...
...saucer, approved a more advanced design, and hope within three years to have a prototype that can take off straight up, hover in midair, and fly at mach 2.5 [nearly 2,000 m.p.h. at sea level]. Its designer: John C. M. Frost, 35, a tall, shy Briton with a passion for flowers and flying saucers...
...opinion, in spite of the cold war, in spite of its profound antiCommunism, is still firmly pacific, and, far from straining at the leash, will fight only when all reasonable chances of negotiation have failed. Peace is still, as in Jefferson's day, the American people's passion . . . By rejecting premature commitments in Indo-China, public opinion has overtaken the party cries...