Word: spate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spate of Punditry. Through receptions and cocktail parties and all kinds of informal gatherings, the diplomats deployed to meet the needs of the crisis. "Is anyone here still speaking to me?" a bright-eyed British noblewoman pertly broke the ice one day, whereupon she was warmly and immediately reassured. Well-mannered and well-indoctrinated young embassy spear carriers were ever ready to convince their U.S. opposite numbers that they had really invaded Egypt to stop the Russians. The higher-ups concentrated on background briefing U.S. columnists and pundits-many of them still awallow in the wash of the sunken Adlai...
Angry U.S. officials were convinced that "friendly embassies" tipped key correspondents that President Eisenhower intended to deliver a "strong" statement against Russian intervention in the Middle East at his press conference. When the President stuck by his policy of talking softly and backing the U.N., a new spate of punditry and radio-TV commentary bewailed his "disappointing" stand...
Wall Street's professionals were full of theories, laid the decline to a combination of the Suez Canal crisis, tight money, technical factors in the market and a sudden spate of stories touting Democratic chances in November. Some market .analysts raised the specter of a bear market, but most of the pros said no. Said Benton & Co.'s Albert Tompane, a leading U.S. Steel stock specialist: "Money has been tight all summer. People haven't got excess funds. The bull market is leveling off, but we're not in a bear market, and the economy...
...touted by Picture Post as "Scotland Yard's biggest investigation of the century," has been making headlines for a month: YARD PROBES DEATHS OF 300 RICH WOMEN; YARD PROBES MASS POISONING. Papers reported plans to exhume bodies, test cemetery soil, investigate wills and drug sales. But despite a spate of stories about the Case of the Eastbourne Deaths, many a reader stumbled bewildered through such a maze of hints, irrelevancies and non sequiturs that it was hard to figure out what the uproar was all about. Reason: the tough British laws of libel and contempt that forbid newspapers...
...Christian A. Herter, proposed by Stassen as the man to stop Nixon, himself made the nominating speech. Stassen was one of the seconders. An ex-Democrat from Nebraska, one Terry Carpenter, backed down after nominating a fictitious "symbol of an open convention" named Joe Smith (thereby setting off a spate of "Yes, Virginia, There Is a Joe Smith" editorials in the U.S. press). Governor "Goodie" Knight choked down his gorge and made the California announcement of 70 votes for Nixon. The nomination, like Ike's, was unanimous-and old Frank Nixon took new heart, began gaining strength...