Word: statesmanly
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...statesman of the week was a trench-coated soldier with a hand grenade taped to his shoulder harness. Almost from the moment the truce talks started in "neutral" Kaesong, General Matt Ridgway had chafed under a sense of an intolerable situation. The choice was to accept a long-drawn-out negotiation and daily humiliation, or to force a showdown...
...optimism is justified, and the U.S. is not in World War III by 1953; the nation's taxpayers will be grateful for such economy; if the planners are wrong, the U.S. will be disastrously half-ready. It is a massive gamble, which only a few men like Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch boldly criticize: he, almost alone, would go all-out on production now; the rest mutter and have misgivings, but go along...
...July 4th dinner given in London by the English-Speaking Union, NATO Commander Dwight Eisenhower delivered the kind of speech the world has not heard since Winston Churchill was eloquently advocating the "Grand Design"-United Europe. Said Statesman Eisenhower...
Five years after U.S. publication, readers in England were snapping up copies of the first British edition of Critic Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County. The New Statesman and Nation's V. S. Pritchett sounded a restrained critical welcome: "It is sustained in brilliance, and if it is a failure, it is a failure of an absorbing, vital, fertilizing kind, and I am glad that an English publisher has, at last, been found after many years to bring it out." As for the lurid passages which had caused the book to be banned in New York...
...prepared by Church Historian James Hastings Nichols, associate professor of the history of Christianity at the University of Chicago and author of Primer for Protestants. The result, just published as Democracy and the Churches (Westminster Press; $4.50), turns over many a fertile furrow for both churchman and statesman...