Word: statesmanship
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...should like to nominate Senator Vandenberg. ... He stands so much taller than his colleagues in the Senate as an exponent of good statesmanship and political honesty...
...most important group which went abroad was the Select Committee on Foreign Aid, headed by Massachusetts' Christian Herter. After six weeks of assessing Western Europe's misery, the committee returned last week. It had exhibited congressional statesmanship at its highest. Committee members had talked to heads of governments, opposition political parties, organized labor leaders, workers, farmers, industrialists. They brought back trunkloads of data and notebooks crammed with impressions...
...Subservience before the boss is a talent of statesmanship which Harry Truman mastered to perfection. Endless readiness to serve his Wall Street master-this is what finally took the small Missourian to the White House. . . . Let Vandenberg, Byrnes, Dulles, Hoover manager him, and let Clark Clifford . . . write his speeches for him. Let Truman only read them tolerably well. Thus Harry Truman has become the clerk of American imperialism. . . . He no longer says, as formerly, that he never takes political decisions without consulting his wife. He knows now with whom to consult! . . . In his squeaky voice already is heard the sound...
...awarded NSA a seat on its American commission to speak officially for this country's widely-dispersed millions of youth. Such authoritative recognition for the fledgling body has come only because of the imposing conduct of the young men and women at Madison. They strutted maturity and the best statesmanship of their generation...
...prolific mothers, a Mrs. Fitzgerald, paid impartial homage to statesmanship by calling her eighth Eamon, her ninth Winston; Mrs. Noonan named her 13th and 14th Pius and Pascal. A connoisseur of hospitals, Mrs. Noonan scorned the nurses who had attended her on the occasion of Padraic. "Nosey. They was that nosey that they turned out me locker for to clean it. Quare sort of cleaning they gev it. Examinin' me belongin's. Jest because I had put away a couple of biscuits and crunchies and some fish and chips me cousin got me and pickled pigs' trotters...