Word: surefootedness
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It gets applause, even gasps, night after night. It is a simple chorus-girl kick, the torso tilting back for balance, the long, long left leg surging straight up above the head. But it is also an emblem-of a career that has gone everywhere, yet still draws its inspiration...
Beneath the bonhomie, say officials who have sat in on discussions with him, he is a very cautious politician. Though much more surefooted now than in his earlier years at the top, he is still not totally at ease in foreign affairs and relies heavily on Gromyko.
It's fairly clear that Reston with his usual thoroughness talked to a number of people in the course of his search for the truth of the matter. It certainly looks as if he consulted the British ambassador, and possibly the Canadian and the French (though the phrase "Western embassies...
THE WATCHMAN, by Davis Grubb (275 pp.; Scribner; $3.95), is the latest of the author's marrow-chilling tales of good and evil, written in a style compounded of Hans Christian Andersen imaginativeness and American Gothic hyperbole. His Night of the Hunter (1954), a surefooted, poetic horror story of...
¶The Minneapolis Star and Tribune, endorsing Eisenhower-Nixon as it did in 1952, explained: Ike has stabilized the dollar and produced "almost full employment"; he has "proved himself always surefooted" in foreign affairs; and "Richard Nixon has been a first-rate Vice President."