Word: statesmanly
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...House is large enough, quietly passed word to bottle up the bills. Result is that many a Congressman, his districts gerrymandered into new voter patterns, will watch his step until Election Day. Said one California Democrat last week: "If I knew where I stood, I could vote like a statesman. Instead I've got to tiptoe down the center aisle, this way and that. I'm a cracker-barrel Congressman, and I could have been a statesman...
...paper was authentic, they suspected that it might be a calculated leak by Khrushchev, who is perennially running for office as the West's favorite Communist. Khrushchev, these experts argue, would like nothing better than to extract concessions from the West in the guise of the reasonable world statesman who needs to show results if he is to stand up to big, bad Mao. Deutscher himself is an ex-Communist and avowed Trotskyite who, though an acknowledged expert on Soviet affairs with intimate contacts among dissident Communists, has long been known for his partiality to Khrushchev. But Deutscher insists...
When Nominal Democrat Samuel Yorty was sworn in as Los Angeles' mayor, the august inaugural was presided over by no less a statesman than Professional Toastmaster George Jessel, 63. Last week, entertainment's sinking showboat offhandedly admitted that the official document he had been handed at the ceremony was a paternity-suit summons slapped on him by sometime Fiancée Joan Tyler, 27. At week's end Joan assured the world, in the blase manner of Hollywood, that "George and I are not mad at each other," hinted that he might marry her when her divorce...
...intellectual does not need to have, and is frequently devoid of, that quality which is indispensable in the statesman-practical wisdom. In the world of the intellectual, ideas meet with ideas, and anything goes that is presented cleverly and with assurance. In the political world, ideas meet with facts which make mincemeat of the wrong ideas and throw the pieces in the ashcan of history...
...rostrum in the Kremlin's Great Hall waddled a stumpy figure in the dark green of a Soviet lieutenant general and sporting a chestful of medals. Sure enough, it was Nikita Khrushchev, epigrammatist, agriculturist, commissar, statesman-and now, it seemed, officially a war hero. It was the 20th anniversary of Hitler's invasion of Russia. According to the new history of World War II just off the press, none other than Nikita pressed Stalin in vain to change his tactics before the Nazis attacked in 1941. And who saved Stalingrad? "Great meritorious service in that connection was performed...