Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hailstones. The scientists, for the most part, kept mum. Some fumbled around with the idea of solar reflections, meteor crystals, ice crystals, hailstones. No astronomer had seen anything unusual. No weather plane or radar screen had picked up any astral bodies. Air Forces spokesmen denied that they had experimental planes resembling the saucers seen in the Northwest or anywhere else...
...Harry Truman signed the Taft-Hartley labor bill, which Congress had overwhelmingly approved, organized labor would never forgive him. At least that was what labor's spokesmen were telling him. On the other hand, if the President vetoed the bill, he would bear the brunt of public resentment over any new strike crisis. One crisis built up this week when U.S. shipping was threatened with immobilization by a strike of five C.I.O. maritime unions. Another crisis was ahead: John Lewis made deep rumblings. A strike threatened in the soft coal mines, when they go back to private operation...
India's loquacious, figure-fumbling Asaf Ali had the greatest number of questions to ask Zionist and Arab spokesmen. He turned to Henri Cattan, and asked (as if he knew): "Do you realize that in the Dead Sea there are $3,000,000,000,000 worth of minerals?" Cracked the committee chairman, Canada's witty, brisk Lester Pearson: "Gentlemen, I think our work is over. . . . We have found [indicating Asaf Ali] our special committee of inquiry...
Such a Miscalculation. Soviet spokesmen could rant & rave; they had plenty of time for it. The prolongation of Europe's plight played into Communist hands. This was the level where the Soviet Union was well equipped-the ideological level, where Communism feeds on misery and despair. So the inevitable question arose: "What does the U.S. do next...
...Jews, with a golden opportunity to present their case to the world, were split into rival groups, each demanding to be Jewry's voice before the Assembly. (The Jewish Agency, principal champion of Jewish rights in the Holy Land, refused to be mere observers at the session; its spokesmen stayed away pending decision on their request to be treated as a voteless delegation.) On one point the delegates seemed unhappily agreed: the stored bitterness of 25 years of Palestine troubles would be freely poured out in the General Assembly...