Word: preparedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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My Friend Alger. Tall, urbane Dean Acheson was well prepared. Settling back in the witness chair, impeccably correct in a double-breasted grey suit, he began: "I have waited a long time to answer this, and I want to answer in detail. As a preliminary I would like to state...
Retort Prosaic. A reserved man, full of the knowledge that any Washington official has to dodge his share of flying tomahawks, Forrestal made little effort to counter the attacks. Goaded, he finally prepared a long, prosaic letter to send Congressmen who received anxious and puzzled inquiries from radio listeners.
Standing at Valley Forge. Columnist Walter Winchell caught the scent. He echoed the baying from the far left, also saw Forrestal plotting a Wall Street dictatorship. Leaping on a civil-defense bill prepared at Forrestal's direction, he shrilled that if the bill passed, "you may be in jail...
On one detail, the State Department spoke plainly and firmly. The U.S. wanted as many anti-Communist European nations as possible to join the alliance and was prepared to work with those who did. But some prospective members-e.g., Portugal, Eire, Iceland-so far were uncommitted. And Sweden hoped...
He lived quietly in a great, grey Paris mansion. He was a passionate hunter and a bad shot. He maintained a private game preserve near Paris, but, said a friend last week, he "never went in for displays of wealth. That would not occur to him." In the '30s...