Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first statesmen to congratulate Kreisky was West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. That was particularly appropriate. Both men spent the war years in neutral Sweden, and both are committed to a reformist, pragmatic brand of socialism...
Though patterns were her favorite preoccupation, people's faces brought her the most fame. Bourke-White portraits of suffering slum dwellers or world statesmen showed the same deep sensitivity. Her persistence and unceasing quest for perfection once led Mahatma Gandhi to dub her "the torturer." Churchill scowled memorably for her; she coaxed a rare smile out of a stone-faced Stalin, she explained, by assuming "all kinds of crazy postures searching for a good camera angle." In World War II she became the first accredited woman war photographer. While covering Russian soldiers fighting the Nazis within 150 miles...
...prostitutes and pickpockets merged for different kinds of commerce. Such restaurants as Au Pied de Cochon, Le Pere Tranquille and Au Chien Qui Fume lured socialites in white ties as well as butchers in blood-spattered white smocks, often as the sun was rising. Left Bank intellectuals, statesmen, artists and American expatriates like Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald were all habitues of Les Halles' all-night eating places...
...World Statesmen. As everyone knows, the Marshall Plan was announced on Commencement Day by its author, the recipient of a Harvard honorary. Of late, though, the recipients in this category have tended to be more obscure men, cabinet ministers in small European or Latin American countries. This year's recipient could be England's Prime Minister Ted Heath, France's Premler Georges Pompidon, or more likely, someone more obscure-possibly the poet-President of Chad who is reportedly in Boston this week. No one in the present U.S. Administration is likely to be considered...
...hard to imagine, however, that such gestures could drastically alter the impression in South Viet Nam that Thieu is Washington's favorite. Last year, after all, Richard Nixon described Thieu as one of the "five or six greatest statesmen" in the world today. No matter how neutral the U.S. appears, Thieu is not likely to let the voters forget that overblown paean...