Word: statesmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Alternative. Until the statesmen acted, the preservation of the U.N. forces in Korea-such as could still be preserved-was the problem of the generals and of their battered, much-enduring regulars. And the only way the statesmen could save them would be through a plea for an armistice, or acceptance of a deal with the Communists. By any such deal, Communism would emerge triumphant...
Modern history has no more dramatic scene than Wu's speech at Lake Success. The world heard only by dim and dignified hearsay of Hitler raging at statesmen who came to Berchtesgaden; it saw only the absurd arrested motion of Hitler's triumphant jig in the Forest of Compiègne. Millions by television and radio saw & heard Wu spew forth Communism's unappeasable hatred, cloaked in Communism's lies and muscled by Communism's paranoid vocabulary of denunciation...
...present complete absence of a council is sort of an anomaly in the Yale community which claims to mold its sons particularly as statesmen, civic leaders, and administrators. A little squadron of committees exists to handle social activities, elections, and certain class events, but the duties of each are so specific and limited that no prestige is attached to membership...
...only objectives were to defend a buffer zone south of the Yalu, and pin down the U.S. divisions.to a harsh winter war of attrition, the highly audible wails of dismay from the U.S.-from the public, which had expected the Korean war to be ended by now, and from statesmen who wanted to dispatch U.S. divisions to Europe-must have been music to Red ears...
...time that our politicians make a stab at being statesmen. Such an effort will be even more crucial when the new Congress, with its close party balance, meets in January...