Word: solee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, before leaving the field to Rival Adlai Stevenson (see below), Ike defined for his audience his idea of what the G.O.P. should be. It should be "committed to no group," yield to "no particular pressure," have as its sole motive the welfare of 168 million Americans. If a measure is good for all Americans, advised Ike, "get behind it and shove." If it is not, "don't let them sell it to you, no matter how attractive it looks for votes or anything else...
...chandeliered conference room of London's Lancaster House, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles faced a roomful of uneasy men with varying ideas but a common interest. Their interest was to find, through diplomacy rather than war, the way to remove the Suez from the sole control of Egypt's Nasser. The immediate objective was to equip that common interest with a workable bargaining instrument fashioned from the Anglo-American plan for a canal users' association...
...trade. Muratori made a deal with Gentili to take over the party's China trade. Two months later Peking gave Gentili an order for 7,000 cases of rayon fiber, paid him off with a shipload of soybeans, which he sold in Antwerp. Later Gentili was made the sole Italian agent for China's majoif trading company, and Muratori was dispatched to Peking to operate as Gentili's contact from an office at 98 Hsi Chiao Min Hsiang...
...academicism. He can ham up a game of charades, dance smoothly, charm a pretty girl. He is also one of the most artful dodgers of a restaurant check in public life, affects a studied carelessness about his appearance. The famous 1952 photo of Stevenson's worn-out shoe sole was no contrivance; neither was the pair of eyeglasses he carried last spring−they had been mended with a brass safety...
...course, nothing disgusts Fernand more than himself. 'His ruthless 5 a.m. self-analysis reveals a life as barren, lonely and pockmarked as the face of the moon. Fernand has lost all hope of heaven, but retains a superstitious fear of hell. His sole deity is the "phenobarbitone-God." Only two passions dominate him: laziness and cigarette smoking. He lies on his bed by the hour looking at the wall. Indeed, the only decision Novelist Dutourd puts to his hero in the whole course of this Novel is whether or not to get up and go to the bathroom. Fernand...