Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish the [new Prime Minister] health and strength," said ex-Prime Minister Clement Attlee in the course of a tribute to Churchill. "We cannot, of course, wish him a long tenure of office . . . but as a Mr. Young said to Lord Melbourne when that statesman was hesitating to accept the premiership: 'Why, damn it all . . . if it only last three months, it will be worthwhile to have been Prime Minister of England...
...foreign-capital operations in Brazil; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. Outspoken, scrupulously honest Politico Bernardes was exiled and later pardoned by President Getulio Vargas for his part in the unsuccessful São Paulo revolt in 1932, in later years was widely hailed as the elder statesman of Brazilian nationalism and as a major influence behind the 1953 petroleum bill, which closed Brazil's oil resources to foreign companies...
When Dr. Kasim Gulek, 45, was invited to lecture in the U.S., Canada and Germany, it took him a month to clear his passport through the Turkish government. Although he is recognized as a distinguished statesman, he is a leader of the opposition Republican Party. The men in power in a democracy that held its first free election only nine years ago were afraid he might criticize them abroad...
...once they had gathered, island leaders tacitly agreed that federation-which amounts to making a British dominion out of Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and the Windward and Leeward Islands-would be meaningless if the bars stayed up. The islands' elder statesman, Barbados' Premier Grantley Herbert Adams, set forth the case for free movement, Trinidadian Labor Minister Albert Gomes offered concessions, and Jamaican Chief Minister Norman Washington Manley soon brought them into agreement...
...20th century's more fashionable agnostic creeds is "scientific humanism." That creed is not without its heresies, and in last week's humanistic New Statesman and Nation, competitors matched wits in naming them. Samples...