Word: rusk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Neill made a hawkish speech at Boston College, his alma mater, to a hostile young audience that included two of his children. Irked by one student questioner, he exploded: "I've had 43 briefings on the war from all the experts?Johnson, Westmoreland, Abrams, Bunker, Lodge, Rusk, McNamara?and I think I know more
...fourth time-but few Finns believe him. The President takes pride in his working friendship with the Kremlin leadership. Many of its members belong to his "Helsinki Club," a select group of statesmen who have visited Helsinki and shared a sauna with him; Western members include Dean Rusk, King Baudouin of the Belgians and Sweden's Ex-Premier Tage Erlander. Finland's cabinet has its own version of the club, meeting regularly in the sauna at Kesaranta, the Premier's official residence, to combine parboiling and policymaking. Within the bounds of Finland's "bridge building" neutralism...
...senior ambassador and the only one ever to have headed America's three leading embassies in Western Europe-London, Bonn and Paris. President Kennedy considered him for Secretary of State, passing him over only because of his age (he was then 62) in favor of Dean Rusk...
...network's Tokyo bureau, he had been spending one month out of every three in the war zone. Not reluctantly: Syvertsen had a reputation for spunk. TIME'S Rome bureau chief, James Bell, particularly remembers a time in 1963 when Nikita Khrushchev was meeting with Dean Rusk in Pitsunda on the Black Sea. "The Soviet security people tried to throw us out," Bell recalls. "We were rescued by Nikita himself, who dressed down the guards, said we were his personal guests and could do anything we liked. So George calmly walked over to one of the hot lines...
...numbers are on the upswing, the partners' lives are not. Traditionally, dating is the prelude to marriage, and many white Americans who accept the concept of black power would prefer to see that power insulated. When Dean Rusk's daughter wed a black in 1967, the Richmond News Leader spoke for many Southerners-and Northerners-who felt that mixed marriages were "eccentric," and that "anything which diminishes [Rusk's] personal acceptability is an affair of state...