Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were jittery, Ike was not. Late one afternoon, returning to his office after a session with his golf clubs on the White House lawn, he found half a dozen of them talking nervously just outside the door. Said the President mildly: "Why don't you go home?" The remark, half rebuke, half encouragement, told them plainly what they already knew: Ike's confidence is intact...
Something to Swallow. In a cryptic aside to one of his top aides a few weeks ago Tito said: "The Russians are getting difficult again. This time we've got to swallow it." Western observers, to whom the remark leaked, guessed what Tito was talking about: a few carping lines in Moscow's Pravda drawing attention to the fact that trials are still being held for repatriated pro-Stalin Yugoslavs, hundreds of whom Tito is said to have jailed. A later report that cropped up in Warsaw-that the Soviet Central Committee was circulating a letter describing Tito...
Tito's remark that Yugoslavia would have "to swallow" attacks from the Soviet right wing was interpreted as meaning that any show of aggressive independence at this point would merely help the rightists. After the surprise departure last week, a Belgrade spokesman said that Tito had gone to Yalta to "strengthen Khrushchev's hand." But if Khrushchev is in trouble with his own party, how does Tito's presence at Yalta help him? There were no firm answers to this question last week, but hints dropped through Communist channels over the past few months indicated how Tito...
...golfing vacation at California's Cypress Point, flew the Republican candidate for President of the U.S., clearly willing and ready to start swinging on two months of hard campaigning. At the airport, spotting a sign that said WE CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRATS LIKE IKE, Dwight Eisenhower got off an apt remark for a Republican candidate in 1956. "You're not conservative," he said. "You're just discerning Democrats...
...masterly" presentation, said Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd. Even Foreign Minister Osten Unden of neutral Sweden spoke up to endorse Dulles' speech, moving one veteran conferencegoer to remark: "Unden is the first Swede to know what side he is on since Charles...