Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge University Conservative Association, he said: "The Prime Minister is not ill. He has simply had a hell of a time, and it is essential he should have a holiday for a few weeks. He has been submitted probably to more pressure and more attack than almost any statesman in our history." Since Butler is not a man ever to be unwittingly indiscreet, his hearers caught the sly suggestion that Eden's "holiday" at the peak of his troubles indicated that Eden was just not tough enough for his job. It remained to be seen whether this...
With the quiet diplomacy of an elder statesman, Griff restored faculty confidence, without sacrificing the administration's control. He stumped across the land urging more alumni support, raised enough money to up faculty salaries more than 15%-^ As peace returned to the campus, Reed's drooping enrollment climbed back to normal, and Griff retired again...
Said a good U.S. friend, Lebanon's Philosopher-Statesman Dr. Charles Malik: "It is absolutely a sine qua non condition of this opportunity that the U.S. makes it crystal clear that while it will not condone destruction of Israel, equally it will not condone expansion of Israel. The U.S. should stop at no limits in preventing further penetration of this area by Communism and should do everything it can to roll it back. Part of the opportunity is for the U.S. not only to take an interest in economic development-which is, after all, neutral-but it should interest...
...years with the foundation, Dr. Gregg refused all honorary degrees and awards lest acceptance embarrass him in dealing with donors. Last week Medical Statesman Gregg, 66 and now retired, accepted his first, well-earned award. In Atlantic City he received a special Albert Lasker Award of the American Public...
Health Association-its value just upped from $2,500 to $5,000-as an "exemplar par excellence of the 'wellbeing of mankind throughout the world,' public-health statesman, influential medical educator, wise counselor and friend...