Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was an air of concord throughout Geneva: experienced old Police Chief Charles Knecht (who has shaken the hands of a long line of grey statesmen who failed to make peace in his city) decided that around the lakeside villas of the Big Four "barbed wire will not be necessary...
...four world capitals, statesmen were strapping on their diplomatic rucksacks, picking their Sherpas and testing their nonslip boots for the hazardous climb to the Parley at the Summit...
When the world's statesmen met in San Francisco for the United Nations' anniversary this week, Dwight Eisenhower was the first to speak. He delivered the welcoming address in the Opera House where the U.N. was born...
...voters a sizzling exhibition of stumping and easily slid past his Democratic opponent on election day. But in Sacramento, he discovered that his job was no more exciting than being a judge. As presiding officer of the state senate, he frequently garbled the parliamentary rules and confused the statesmen. When such mixups occurred, Lieutenant Governor Knight was unabashed. "My parliamentarian says I'm wrong," he would genially admit. "I overrule myself...
...British still operate on the maxim of one of their great statesmen that England has no friends, no enemies, but only interests. Would that this country had statesmen who possessed a similar regard...