Word: statesmanly
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President Eisenhower-a great war leader, a great statesman, the acknowledged leader of the free world and the hope of countless millions of the enslaved behind the Iron Curtain...
Your Nov. 19 article on Sir Anthony Eden tries to demerit the greatest statesman and diplomat in the world. History will show who was great and who was so inept and so wanting. The latter will not be Sir Anthony...
...became "he oldest man ever to serve in the Congress, surpassing the record of North Carolina's late Democratic Representative Robert ("Muley") Doughton, whose term ended in 1953 when Doughton was 89 years 56½ days. Then, thanking lots of walking and other exercise for his longevity, Eldest Statesman Green, a bachelor who drinks an occasional cocktail and smokes not even cornsilk, rushed to West Germany and a banquet honoring him as the oldest living ex-student of the University of Bonn...
...Cambridge University Conservative Association, he said: "The Prime Minister is not ill. He has simply had a hell of a time, and it is essential he should have a holiday for a few weeks. He has been submitted probably to more pressure and more attack than almost any statesman in our history." Since Butler is not a man ever to be unwittingly indiscreet, his hearers caught the sly suggestion that Eden's "holiday" at the peak of his troubles indicated that Eden was just not tough enough for his job. It remained to be seen whether this...
With the quiet diplomacy of an elder statesman, Griff restored faculty confidence, without sacrificing the administration's control. He stumped across the land urging more alumni support, raised enough money to up faculty salaries more than 15%-^ As peace returned to the campus, Reed's drooping enrollment climbed back to normal, and Griff retired again...