Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes to an hour. At Wyeth's request Ike donned his favorite jacket, a straw-colored, nubby silk. He sat unsmiling and as if alone with his thoughts. Previous portraitists, working mostly from photographs, have tended to crystallize the popular image of a beamingly paternal President. Wyeth saw and showed an elderly, strong-minded, dedicated public servant, calm in the vortex of great events...
...Eisenhower, the return to Europe was an occasion of deep sentiment, and more than once, newsmen thought they saw the trace of tears in his eyes. But the meaning of Ike's trip went far beyond his personal feeling for Europe, or its feeling for him. In the very shouts and cheers lay a basic acceptance of the President's ability to deal with Nikita Khrushchev during their coming exchange of visits. That acceptance came from the realization of Dwight Eisenhower's achievements and stature as President...
...crowd, the President said: "I must say my deepest reaction and sentiment at this moment is that of extraordinary pleasure and true enjoyment for being back once again in this land which I have learned so much to love." And as he rode into town with Macmillan, the President saw about him a London that would not change-jodhpur-clad girls riding in Rotten Row; jocular types with pints of bitter outside the Fox and Hound, the Three Kings, the Bunch of Grapes; the predictable athlete pumping along main roads in Kensington, eyes down, elbows high, oblivious to the motorcade...
...plus-eight, the battle still hammering in the outskirts, the British doctors got their last breath of hope when they looked out of an attic window across the eight flat miles that separated them from the main body of Montgomery's bogged-down army. They saw "an almost continuous line of flashes that illuminated the horizon like footlights." Said one surgeon: "Monty always begins his attacks this way. They should reach here tomorrow." Another replied: "About bloody time, too." Next day all was still. The barrage was a final concentration to cover the last retreat of ist Airborne...
...Goodyear Theater (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). An old saw sharpened up for a new effort. When the head of the household dies and leaves no cash for the groceries, the butler comes through like a blueblood. This time it is called I Remember Caviar. Rerun...