Word: politician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...else, coolly declared that Zoli was still Premier, "I felt," burbled Zoli into the silence, "that I had to accede to so high an authority." So ended Italy's longest political crisis (52 days) since the one that preceded Mussolini's accession to power. Said one Roman politician: "This government is not a solution to crisis, but merely a manifestation...
...Christian Democrats increased their vote (from 41% to 41.8%). But the real surprise of the election was the showing made on his first campaign in Sardinia by ebullient, 72-year-old Achille Lauro, founder and sole proprietor of Italy's Popular Monarchist Party-Italy's most colorful politician...
GILBERTO FLORES MUÑOZ, 55, is the toiling, famously honest Minister of Agriculture. Flores Muñoz directed Ruiz' 1952 campaign, has since cracked down on corruption and launched ambitious new projects in his department. He is also a tub-thumping politician...
...cuckolded husband who yearned for ''a little warm house in the snow where you were told what to do, like in school." Actress Kim Stanley, in another excellent performance, was the adulterous wife who talked about the supreme confidence of her first husband, a Pennsylvania politician, who "fights the blizzards and the floods for you, beats the world off when it rises to swallow you up." To her cheap lover, Lloyd Bridges, she said: "I see in you the governor of a great state." These thematic straws did not interfere with the brutal clash of character...
Folks for some time now have been aware of a phenomenon in Western thought known as laissez-faire thinking. Its latest expression has come in Eisenhower's Geneva Conference proposal for "open skies." With the true homely-phrase-making genius of the American politician, the President presented the world with an appealing slogan. "Open skies" sounded like a Good Thing, because Americans are good at free competition so long as it is clean and "open." "Open skies" called to mind Woodrow Wilson, fair play, and possibly even Blue Skies. It was, in short, a note of hope. Perhaps it still...