Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower. Winner Eisenhower (who also was top man in 1952) had as many votes as the combined total of the next two men on the list-Sir Winston Churchill and General Douglas MacArthur. Other high-ranking also-rans: Harry S. Truman, Adlai E. Stevenson, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, Pope Pius XII and former President Herbert Hoover. A newcomer among the top ten: Wisconsin's U.S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, who ranked seventh...
...genuine fears, a studied contempt for fair play, a cunning talent for concealing failures by loudly baying after new victims. Too many abroad, urged on by a U.S. press that would leave no word of McCarthy unrecorded-no matter how outlandish-took him as their image of the American statesman and overemphasized his influence...
...Impotence-that is the flaw of our men of power . . . The statesman worthy of the name is the one who can make his own designs prevail over the passions of a Parliament, as he would be able, were he dictator and absolute master, to reduce to silence his own passions. Such is the gift of persuasion and of leadership which has been bestowed on none of our weak rulers...
...article on Vydvizhenets Khrushchev [Nov. 30], which brought to light a distinction that the Ukrainian people staunchly and vigorously uphold . . . You have rendered these people great justice by rightly acknowledging them as a nation not to be" confused with Russia . . . a distinction which surpasses the attention . . . of many a statesman. TIME alone . . . has understood precisely that the Ukrainians . . . are truly "proud of their mother tongue, and do have a national pride that centuries of conflict . . . have not dimmed but glorified." The Turks were not able to root out this national pride, neither were the Poles, nor the Germans, and neither...
...Nehru, of course. A great statesman . . . G. A. ADVANI Syracuse...