Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard for seasoned diplomats to take the prideful new delegates as seriously as they took themselves, and this made for friction. "The more to the left, the more pompous in manner," complained one Western statesman. "They come with batons, aides and trainbearers. Why, one fellow won't even carry his own speeches...
That would give him power to paralyze the whole U.S. economy. But Hoffa promised to exercise that power like the true labor statesman that he is. "There just won't be a national strike," he said. "It isn't good business for the union." The guarantee was every bit as good as Jimmy Hoffa's word...
...becoming ominously clear that blocking Gaston Eyskens' bill was no longer the lone, clear issue among the swirling mobs of strikers and the Socialist slogan slingers. The dammed-up bitterness of a nation sharply divided for generations was flowing again, underlining anew the point made by a statesman to his King 40 years ago: "Sire, there are no Belgians. There are only Flemings and Walloons." The largely agricultural Flemings of the Dutch-speaking north for years have felt that successive governments have discriminated against them in favor of the French-speaking Walloons of the industrial south, where pay generally...
...briefly crossed paths in the U.S. Senate, then went their respective ways. At a reception for new members of Congress, Oregon Democrat Maurine Neuberger, taking the Senate seat held by her husband Richard until his death last March, got a brotherly buss from Democratic Elder Statesman Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the U.N. Meanwhile, after 24 years in the Senate, Rhode Island's durable Democrat Theodore Francis Greene - having walked, swum and cerebrated himself to the hearty age of 93 - left that august body (voluntarily, because he could surely have been re-elected had he chosen...
...Angeles area is the big academic challenge at Chicago. The eighth boss of the University of Chicago sees the assignment as nothing less than a chance to devote all the rest of his life to bridging the "two-culture" gap between science and the humanities, which many a scientist, statesman and teacher thinks is the biggest problem rising out of the scientific advances that Beadle, among others, has brought about...