Word: statesmanship
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Speaking to a small crowd in New Lecture Hall, Lattimore argued that the issues in the dispute between the Nationalist Chinese and the Communists on the mainland over possession of Formosa are brought up only during times of "crises." Because of this "brink-tottering statesmanship," he said, we are "kept on the run from crisis to crisis. There are no indications," he added, "of a thorough overhaul of long range policy toward the Far East...
...thoroughly and therefore merited respect -in Britain, more than a casual recommendation, and for U.S.-British friendship more than a casual plus. Summed up the New York Times's London Correspondent Drew Middleton: "Nixon arrived billed as an uncouth adventurer in the political jungles, departed trailing clouds of statesmanship and esteem. In four days here filled with opportunities for the most horrendous mistakes, the Vice President did not make a misstep...
Then RCA President John L. Burns sat in on the negotiations. In what the department considers "a stroke of industrial statesmanship," an agreement was reached on a color TV patent pool...
...turn its church into an integration-dodging private school at the drop of a gavel. But last week the churches got the news that they would be used only to glorify God. In a decision that Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. called the "epitome of judicial statesmanship," Federal Judge Hutcheson-who was born in black-belt Mecklenburg County 64 years ago-granted the board a delay not of five but of seven years...
...fellow Democrats sat silent, Mahon spoke of his deep friendship for Vinson, then, with all the emotion he could muster, told why he was aligning himself with the Republicans: "I am not going to rebuff the President on this issue. I do not think it would be good statesmanship or good politics." When he finished, the Republicans, 100 strong, rose to give him an ovation...