Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first at being excluded from the U.S.-British foray into the Middle East, the French had been congratulating themselves ever since. "It saved France from making a blunder," said Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. The French quickly saw in their accidental neutrality in this particular conflict a splendid chance to play procedural arbiter between West and East, and so to re-establish France among the top diplomatic powers. The situation suited lofty Charles de Gaulle...
...splendid report in TIME, June 30 on the doings of Bernie Goldfine. It always pleases men like myself-whose income is slightly less than Bernie's 90-proof expenditures of last year-when such shaggy dogs are at least brought up for a lecture or two. Too bad Judge Wyzanski can't slap him in the jug with as much ease as my C.O. might be able to under the Uniform Code of Military Justice...
...fastest mind with which I have ever come in contact," said President Woodrow Wilson. "Probably the most charming extravert in the Western world," marveled a rival editor. Ebullient, egocentric, suave and unflaggingly dynamic, Herbert Bayard Swope stood splendidly apart in an era of splendid individualists. As reporter, foreign correspondent and executive editor on the famed New York World-Joseph Pulitzer's proudest monument-Swope gave a glamorous flair to the incisive, personalized brand of U.S. journalism that flourished before World War I and stretched into...
...Dixon; Young
Democrats' President Nelson Lancione and First Vice President Richard
L. Crawford) who are on their way to a Paris convention next month.
Object: to bring future political leaders of the NATO countries face to
face while they are still in their intellectually formative years.
Beamed Ike: "Splendid idea."
...ending was rather tense however, for the teams had agreed to adjourn at 7:30 p.m. (it began at 2:45) and at 7, the Elis still had four wickets in hand, threatening to turn a clear win into a draw. However, splendid bowling by the Crimson's Barry Eastment and Charlie Mills enabled the eleven to put the Elis out with two minutes to spare...