Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horselaughs and snorts of indignation in the U.S. press, sorely annoyed the Ceylonese, and indelibly marked himself as durable headline material. What was Gluck's offense? He admitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in secret session, that he could not pronounce the name of India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal (Jah-wah-har-lahl) Nehru or rattle off the name of Ceylon's Prime Minister (Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike...
...blundered on, trying to give honest and accurate answers as Fulbright whacked away. Gluck did not recall the United Nations report blaming Russia for smashing Hungarian independence, or that Ceylon was one of the five signing nations. Afterwards, he explained that he knew the name of India's Prime Minister, but he could not pronounce Jawaharlal. And the name of the Prime Minister of Ceylon "is a bit unfamiliar now; I cannot call...
Best Hope of Peace. For four days Dulles met with Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, and his own representatives from NATO capitals (he had already talked with Canada's new Prime Minister Diefenbaker-TIME, Aug. 5). In the forefront of Dulles' thinking, as he doodled, argued and explained in the musty committee chambers of Lancaster House, was this line of reasoning: 1) no nation that keenly feels itself in danger of attack is likely to reduce its arms; 2) with modern weapons of war, foreshortening time and space...
...emotional issue of foreign relations, subtle differences mark the party attitudes. Liberals cherish the British Commonwealth as a purely sentimental unifying influence. John Diefenbaker (though he is the first Tory Prime Minister with a non-British name) loves Britain-and sees it as a useful lever to help Canada resist U.S. domination. In London for a Commonwealth Conference soon after his election, Diefenbaker invited his fellow Prime Ministers to send their finance ministers to Ottawa this fall to talk up Commonwealth trade. And back in Ottawa, he called on Canadians to shift 15% of their U.S. purchase orders to British...
...from the combined efforts of an unknown road builder, architect and artist named John Wood and his son John Wood Jr., who had taken over the cramped, run-down town of Bath, site of an ancient Roman spa, and rebuilt it into a showpiece of Georgian architecture and a prime example of unified English town planning. The younger Wood's supreme gambit was to take one elliptical segment of the oval form that Bernini used for St. Peter's Square, and throw it boldly along the city's outskirts, with an open prospect of unspoiled countryside. Binding...