Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That evening messages from statesmen, sovereigns and people from all over the world cascaded into Lowry Air Force Base...
Beyond Geneva's widening circles of participants and counselors (700 in the four delegations) and observers (some 1,400 newsmen) lay the great waiting public itself, which had alternately had its hopes raised and its expectations dashed by statesmen who sometimes acted as if the public, left to its native good sense, could not be trusted to achieve the proper expression of mixed skepticism and hope. But the public was the Big Fifth at Geneva. In the preconference remarks of both the U.S.'s Eisenhower and Russia's Bulganin was an implied acknowledgment that the public expected...
...Impending Collapse. As they made their preparations, the statesmen publicly pondered what they would talk about on the summit, and why they were going...
...Mandarins. Far more than in any other country, this mission has been fashioned neither by its statesmen nor its soldiers but by its intellectuals. In their time of greatness, they have made Europe an intellectual colony of France. For almost two centuries, France has acted as the conscience of Europe, its intellectuals the shapers of that troubled conscience...
News from a Broker. Bill W., a former Wall Street broker and surviving co-founder of A.A., argued that it was time for a permanent guiding body within the organization to take over from the elder statesmen, and the delegates agreed by ratifying a charter with a 15-member board of trustees. He also noted a switch in emphasis: now that its fame is widespread, A.A. gets more and more alcoholics (about half its new members) who have not yet sunk out of social respectability into Skid Row obscurity, who have had little or no experience with delirium, hospitals...