Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Eisenhower's press conference last week noted that most newspapers had prepared critiques of the Administration's first six months, and asked the President to contribute some self-appraisal. Dwight Eisenhower hesitated momentarily, then began by saying that he would be deceitful if he tried to pretend that everything he had hoped to accomplish had been done. But progress had been made, and the President had a word for it: "Gradualism...
...greed, shout no message. They argue about whether the war should have been started, whether it should have been carried into China or stopped at the 38th parallel, whether Van Fleet or MacArthur or the White House had the right solution-and they don't pretend to know all the answers. All that binds them is their common understanding of the steep ridges and the stinking paddies and the swift night attacks from the north...
Change in Plans. The Western powers could pretend no longer that the simmering problem of Trieste would simply blow away if no one looked. Trieste (pop. 270,000), once a commercial rival of Venice, was for centuries a semi-autonomous city, giving the landlocked Austro-Hungarian empire an outlet to the sea. The Allies promised it to Italy in World War I as a reward for joining their side. Italy held Trieste until World War II; ethnically, 80% of the city itself is Italian. Since World War II, the port city and 280 square miles of surrounding countryside, coveted...
...sometime newspaperman, playwright, movie scenarist and novelist, felt it was necessary before setting to work on his first TV drama series, Tales of the City (alternate Thursdays, 8:30 p.m., CBS). His conclusions about TV: "There is no such thing as action in television. All the actors do is pretend there has been action-they pant and they groan and they tell you how far they have just run. TV seems dedicated to saying everything without words. The actors stand around and grunt and say 'Dats so' or 'Ain't dat right?' This is stupid...
...Sickbed requires the diplomatic finesse and toughness of a Talleyrand-and often the elusiveness. Sometimes the mere presence of a clergyman is enough to send the patient into a tailspin of fear that his end has come. Members of the family who ask the minister to pretend that he just happened to drop in are no help. Inexperienced ministers are likeliest to agree to this deception: "They come breezing in as though by chance, express astonishment at finding someone of the household sick, and, of course, under the circumstances cannot bear any burden of the seriousness of the situation." Other...