Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lightning struck. Determined to exchange Sam King's standpat Republicanism for some of his own kind, President Eisenhower sent for Quinn, offered him the governorship. The young lawyer confessed his inexperience. Said Ike: "You are a fine, clean-cut young man. Now you do your best, and that will be the best thing for America...
...began a new flurry of sessions, including some bearing the repellent name of "working teas." Inevitably Gromyko sidled up to Herter and privately suggested giving ground a little here or there, to keep the talk going. The West Germans, alarmed at the possibility of last-minute "ill-considered concessions," sent a hurry-up call for West Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt to appear at Geneva. They need not have worried. The last days were spent in,exchange of poles-apart position papers, in discussing how to counter specious last-minute Soviet offers in deciding whether to recess...
Personal Regards. From the start, partly because of a genuine distaste for meddling with a democratically elected government and partly out of a fear of what the Communists might do in retaliation, Prime Minister Nehru balked at taking action. When Kerala's governor finally sent in a report that things had got out of hand, Nehru still hoped to persuade Namboodiripad to resign in peace. Namboodiripad himself talked as if he wanted to-but was talked out of it by higher Red authority...
Even in ordering Namboodiripad out of office, Nehru characteristically sent him assurances of "warm personal regards." Nehru's daughter Indira had no such attitude. What about the Communist threat to stir up trouble all over India? Snapped Indira: "When have the Communists not created trouble...
Just before she went onstage as Lady Macbeth at Boston's brand-new, nylon-roofed arena theater last week, Irish Actress Siobhan McKenna sent a note to her costar, Jason Robards Jr. "Dear Macbeth," she wrote. "It's funny that after all these years I haven't got to know your first name. I want you to know that yours is the most moving and truly poetic Macbeth I have ever known." When the play was finished, apart from critics who claimed to miss polish and high oratorical style, the cheering audience was willing to go Siobhan...