Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moderation. But a moment of rare drama will come when the face of a man with thick glasses, sharp nose, a cocky grin and a jutting jaw appears on the television screen. At that moment Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the U.S.-the ranking elder statesman (he hates the words) in a party that has not had an active ex-President around since Grover Cleveland-will begin to give 'em hell. Truman's aim: to send his party into the 1956 campaign with the lusty, brawling, they-can't-beat-us sort of Democracy that Truman...
...curiously lovable because whether in life or on the screen it is so remote from any form of viciousness or meanness." Only the august Times held out, printing not a word of the Monroe presence in London. It was promptly taken to task in the double-domed, socialist New Statesman and Nation: "The Times is a news paper-indeed, according to some, still the greatest newspaper in the world. And a newspaper ought at least to mention an event which clearly excites and interests a very large number of people and by reason of that fact alone has some place...
Warren sees the whole world picture, and since he became Chief Justice, he has an opportunity to be the real statesman. Present and past problems have been and are of such a nature that it takes some sort of left turn to meet them. I do not know of any such problem ever having been solved by a turn to the right...
Last week, however, New Delhi's Statesman confirmed the claims from Tibetan sources. "A wave of rebellion" has swept the provinces of eastern Tibet, reported the Statesman, and fighting is raging only 150 miles from Lhasa, Tibet's capital. Both Chinese troops and Tibetan rebels have suffered heavy casualties. Litang has been bombed and several monasteries razed. In the north, fierce, xenophobic Khamba tribesmen are attacking Chinese convoys en route to Lhasa. The Chinese Reds, alarmed by the extent of the uprising, have appealed to the captive Dalai Lama to use his prestige to stop the fighting...
...weary statesman for repose hath...