Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Television appearances have been less of a problem to Adlai Stevenson. He has concentrated on TV more heavily than Eisenhower and his tactical advisers keep the camera on his full face as much as possible so that his unfamiliar visage will become fixed in the public mind...
...Truman out. The fact was, said Bradley, that the President had directed him a week before to arrange briefings for Eisenhower. However, since Ike was so well informed on the international situation, neither Bradley nor Defense Secretary Lovett had seen any need to make immediate arrangements with Eisenhower. "Being unfamiliar with political matters," added Bradley with overdone innocence, "it never occurred to me that the timing of notification might become an issue...
...your July 14 report of reactions in the House of Commons to Mr. Churchill's quotation of Mr. Acheson's reference to "snafu" on the vexed question of the Yalu River bombings: Churchill "rolled the unfamiliar word around for a while and it came out snayfooo...
...really an attempt to censure the U.S., said Churchill. He read from Secretary of State Dean Acheson's closed-door explanation to members of the House: "It is only as the result of what in the U.S. is known as a 'snafu'"-Churchill rolled the unfamiliar word around for a while and it came out snayfooo* -"that you were not consulted about...
...flying planes anywhere, anytime, carrying anything. Four days after the Russian blockade, Seaboard was asked by the Air Force to help in the Berlin airlift. Ten hours later, Seaboard's was the first airlift plane to reach Germany from the U.S. A week after Korea, Seaboard hit the unfamiliar Pacific airlift route from San Francisco to Tokyo. In its scramble for other cargoes, Seaboard has shuttled the Aga Khan's race horses across the Atlantic, flown German war brides to the U.S., elephants from Siam to New York. A Turkish manufacturer ships sausage skins from Teheran, thereby outfoxing...