Word: sit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hasn't lost." Mollet entered an Assembly dissatisfied by partial victory. He saw his chance when a Poujadist Deputy, going too far, complained: "Our paratroopers died for the Queen of England." Wrapping his fingers around a floor microphone, Mollet shouted: "Never forget that if we are able to sit on these benches and speak as free men it is because from 1940 to 1941 the British held on alone." Every Deputy but the Poujadists and Communists gave Guy Mollet a standing ovation...
...into Manhattan to be principal speaker at Francis Cardinal Spellman's annual dinner honoring the memory of Al Smith. There Nixon sailed beyond politics to statesmanship, predicted to a banqueting 2,500: "Most of us here will live to see the day when American boys and girls shall sit, side by side, at any school-public or private-with no regard paid to the color of their skin. Segregation, discrimination and prejudice have no place in America, and I can report to you tonight that men of good will in all sections of our land are working with complete...
...oratory that Clark himself sometimes calls "ranting and roaring." His most effective issue so far has been Jim Duff's Senate absenteeism. Pointing to an empty chair on the speaker's platform, Clark cries: "That's where the junior Senator from Pennsylvania is supposed to be sitting, but he is almost never there. Do we want our chair empty? I'd like to sit in that chair...
Presidential Rescue. If Joe Clark is to sit in Duff's chair, it will be despite a tongue" that sometimes lands him in trouble. In Pittsburgh, the home town of patronage-powerful Mayor David Lawrence, Clark went out of his way to denounce Pennsylvania's spoils system as run both by Republicans and by Governor George Leader's Democratic administration. But such is the unity of Pennsylvania's Democratic Party (a unity due in large measure to the enjoyment of the patronage that Joe Clark derides) that Democrat Lawrence found himself able to laugh the whole...
...rumblings in Asia, Africa, South America, and the Middle East are far from comforting. But comfort cannot be expected, for ideological, political, and economic revolutions are sweeping the world, and will continue to do so for decades. The question is, can America lead these revolutions, or must it sit by and watch until too late...