Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since his election last year as Chancellor of West Germany, ruggedly handsome Willy Brandt has been hailed as one of Western Europe's most charismatic and skillful statesmen. Last week he lived up to his reputation. The longtime Socialist mayor of West Berlin flew into Washington for two days of talks with President Nixon and made a persuasive case for continued U.S. support of his efforts to ease cold-war tensions. He also assured himself of a role in any further discussions about the future of the Continent...
...relative immobility. "With a white executive," says Russell, "if you get to the point where you are reasonably high, then the headhunters, the executive recruiters, are swarming all over you. With blacks, we're either too old, too young and inexperienced, or we're statesmen"-meaning that blacks often have executive perquisites but no real authority. "I would find it difficult." Russell adds, "to say with a straight face to any young black person, 'Come into industry. Everything's fine...
...Judges of the Supreme Court of the land must be not only great jurists, they must be great constructive statesmen...
...group of Chinese dropped by bringing dozens of other Chinese into the courtroom and challenging the prosecutor to match faces with the names on the indictments. Of his lawyer days, Gardner liked to recall that he defended "vagrants, peeping Toms and chicken thieves as if they were great statesmen...
...Saturday's caucus in Concord. While the ladies drank tea. Kerry stuck to his guns and told the women that most welfare recipients did deserve to be on the lists. He said Spiro Agnew was one of the poorer vice-presidents, not one of our great statesmen...