Word: wagged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engine iced up, whereupon White pancaked into a field, hit a few rough spots, went over on his back. Ambassador Bullitt wired President Roosevelt: "Landed upside down. Got out right side up." Later the Russians gave White a Soviet military pilot's license. ("Tommy," quips a Washington wag, "is the only card-carrying member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...could not overcome the general impression that the Administration was taking a bland view of Sputnik. Since the Soviet satellite first swirled skyward, there had been a continuous whirl of top-policy meetings behind closed Washington doors. ("A conference is not a place," said a Washington wag. "It is a technique for hiding.") The only apparent results came with the announcements that 1) Defense Department research and development funds would have to be cut by 10% because of an order issued last August by retiring Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson, and that 2) new Defense Secretary Neil McElroy would henceforth require...
...rock-'n'-roll set of London's lesser nobility, there is no more dashing, madcap wag than the Hon. Antony Patrick Andrew Cairnes Berkeley Moynihan. Last year 20-year-old Tony Moynihan left his cult of juvenile admirers behind, departed for Australia where he said he would take up sheep farming...
Though not everyone would agree on just what is the most important educational job in the U.S., the presidency of the Ford Foundation clearly comes close. Were the foundation nothing more than what a New Yorker wag called it-"a large body of money completely surrounded by people who want some"-it would wield power enough. But it has used its money to tackle problems-and try solutions-on a scale grander than private philanthropy has ever known. It has more than a third ($2.7 billion) of all the foundation money in the U.S. It spends at the rate...
...their troubles, for having thrust the State of Israel into their midst. Shortly before Israel invaded Sinai, Jordan united its armed forces with Syria's and Egypt's, thereby ringing Israel, under the supreme command of an Egyptian. Major General Abdel Hakim Amer. Yet as an Arab wag put it: "How can Jordan unite with Egypt? Tunnels?" Federation with Syria seemed a more practical first step...