Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gone, yet I don't think it is irretrievably gone. But if the college presidents and faculties don't go through with plans to reform college football and athletics in general, they will be destroying something that is marvelous in our life." Football's elder statesman likes to remember the old days at Chicago when "the only reward the boys got was a sweater or a letter...
...star performer, who launched the House investigation of TV: Congressman Ezekiel Gathings of West Memphis, Ark., who enlivened his testimony with an impromptu shimmy to demonstrate how a grass-skirted TV actress danced a hoochie-coochie. Said Statesman Gathings in breathless summary: "The rashest thing I ever viewed...
Baruch thus put his finger on the vague, wishful and widely held notion that the U.S. is steadily overtaking Russia's military head start. In effect, said Elder Statesman Baruch, the U.S. is complacently counting birds in the bush where it should be after birds in the hand. "Since the outbreak in Korea, more than roo billions have been appropriated for defense-an enormous sum. Why has it produced proportionately so little in the way of actual weapons...
Citation: "Lawyer, scholar, statesman, former head of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, able administrator and pioneer in the gigantic task of releasing and using atomic energy, recipient of countless honors for service to the nation in behalf of freedom, religion, agriculture, and security, you have used your genius since your graduation from a Methodist college to advance the ideals, confirm the hopes and improve the lot of your fellow...
London club called "Churchill's" (no kin), and a fan letter addressed to her was mistakenly delivered to the old statesman. Churchill forwarded it with a note of his own: "My dear Miss Kitt, I presume that this extraordinary document was meant...