Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unfolding the morning newspaper was nothing but pleasure for Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson. Texan Johnson's weighty advice to the Administration on budget and defense policies, and his considerable success in steering the Senate to spectacular compromise on the filibuster and the housing bill, were the talk of Washington. But by last week Lyndon Johnson had become accustomed to finding more headaches in headlines than he had known in years...
...Marshal Bernard Montgomery, first Viscount of El Alamein. Monty had decided to fly off to Moscow to see Khrushchev. In almost unanimous disapproval, the British press made it plain that it thought Monty would somehow foul up the summit conference. "The idea of you having a heart-to-heart talk with Khrushchev gives us the collywobbles," cried the Laborite Daily Herald. The Daily Sketch had some advice "to an old and meddling soldier: FADE AWAY." In just as unseasonably warm tones, the British press has been lecturing Adenauer, De Gaulle or any U.S. Senator who has anything harsh...
...Excess of Hopes. At the time of Khrushchev's toothache snub of Harold Macmillan (TIME, March 9), worried British officials made it plain in press briefings that Khrushchev was not interested at all in German reunification, and barely curious about British talk of reducing troop strength in Europe. But ever since then, Harold Macmillan has floated one trial balloon after another about what arms bargains might be struck with the Russians. And when these notions have been shot down by Britain's partners, much of the British press has reacted as if Macmillan and Khrushchev had a workable...
After his Moscow trip, Macmillan first talked of "disengagement,"' then softened this to the possibility of a "thinning out" of troops, then of a "freeze" at existing levels, and currently the fashionable word is a "ceiling" on troop strengths. But rather than having specific proposals, Macmillan seems simply eager to have something to talk about, and to be convinced that talking is all to the good. He has even begun to speak of a "re-occurring summit''-a kind of periodically assembled global board of directors...
...these factors helped to explain Britain's singular preoccupation last week with the need, and the expectancy, of bringing off fruitful negotiations at the summit. Other NATO partners were prepared to talk at the summit, but - thanks largely to Khrushchev's retreat from his original "either or" ultimatum - were in no mood to yield easily. No longer so fearful that a real ultimatum showdown with Russia was at hand, they felt less need to make a parade of unreal unanimity...