Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undercut the Western position still further came unmistakable signals from Britain that, to Tories and Socialists alike, the Geneva stalemate simply made a summit conference more urgent than ever. Said Prime Minister Harold Macmillan: "We cannot abandon the people of West Berlin ... On the other hand, we have to be reasonable and try to work out new arrangements . . ." At a miners' rally in Wales before a crowd of 50,000, mercurial Aneurin Bevan, the man who would be Britain's Foreign Secretary if Labor should win the next election, cast responsibility to the winds. "There is no justification...
...Gaulle's complaint goes deeper: his aides carefully reminded foreign newsmen last week that the general has not yet received a satisfactory answer to the private letters (TIME, Nov. 10) in which he urged Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Macmillan to admit France alongside Britain and the U.S. in a tripartite NATO "political directorate." It is an old French grievance that the U.S. grants full international partnership to Britain, yet treats France as a junior member of the firm, on a par with West Germany or Italy. Fact is, insists De Gaulle, that France, unlike the Germans or Italians...
...respites from clockwork occurred in World War II when its works were shaken during a German air raid. One morning last week, when its hands stood at 11 o'clock and its sonorous bell, nicknamed Big Ben after Sir Benjamin, boomed the hour (in E below middle C), Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and other parliamentary dignitaries gathered to tender happy 100th anniversary greetings to Big Ben and its dependable companion...
...acidulous prime, Gossipmonger Walter Winchell stood second to no columnist for journalistic terseness, ferocity and cheek. A chronic vendettist, he repeatedly bared his teeth and his quill in Winchell feuds: against Singer Josephine Baker ("pro-Fascist, a troublemaker"). the Stork Club's Sherman Billingsley (they quarreled over a pack of cigarettes), Ed Sullivan (''style pirate"), the New York Post ("pinko-stinko sheet"), the "fourth estate" ("All those columnists rapping me-where do you think they get their material? They go through my wastebasket"), and everybody ("Look. I want to get back at a lot of people...
Mercy & Damnation. In Calvin's theology, the prime attribute of God is transcendent sovereignty, and man's chief end is to know and glorify him. But by Adam's fall, man inherited utter depravity and corruptness-not only as a punishment, but also as a kind of disease, creating a condition for which eternal punishment is merited and just. "It is certain," wrote Calvin, "that in our body and soul there is in the eyes of God nothing but repulsive filth." But in his mercy, God has elected to save some by giving them the grace...