Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Arkansas, he depends on the votes of the folks in the mountains and valleys back home. Last week, a full year before he comes up for reelection, just plain Bill Fulbright was wooing those votes for all he was worth-and presenting himself not only as a global thinker but as a peerless pork-barreler...
...confidence in Red China's leaders, who were all grand chaps. Red Boss Mao Tse-tung took Monty swimming in the Yangtze River (surrounded by 60 nervous lifeguards). Mao's heir apparent, Liu Shao-chi, whose icy demeanor frightens even his colleagues, struck Monty as "a thinker, an intellectual": tough Foreign Minister Chen Yi was "a most genial and pleasant person and has a great sense of humor," and Chou En-lai possessed "a first-class brain...
...much a thinker as a manager, sophisticated Tom Jones can design airplanes, speak fluent Portuguese, pick his way knowledgeably among Burgundy vintages, and discourse easily on modern French paintings (which he collects) or the problems that man will run into on the moon. He is also a down-to-earth executive. Rising in just 5½ Years from a $15,000-a-year engineer to chief executive officer with a current annual income of $135,000. Jones has reshaped Northrop from a lagging prime contractor to a broad-based "supplier of suppliers," whose profit rate of 3.2% on last year...
Essays and Introductions, by William Butler Yeats. As a thinker, Yeats had his crotchets, including a belief in ghosts, fairies, and table rapping, but his holy trinity was Ireland, beauty and poetry, and no priest ever served his faith better...
Essays and Introductions, by William Butler Yeats. As a thinker, Yeats had his crotchets, including a belief in ghosts, fairies, and table rapping, but his holy trinity was Ireland, beauty and poetry, and no priest ever served his faith better...