Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...filling the empty ambassador's post, Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen, 52, Ambassador to Moscow since 1953, veteran (28 years) Foreign Service officer and a ranking Department Russian scholar with extensive service as interpreter and adviser at international conferences (e.g., Teheran, Yalta) before reaching his present rank. In the wake of President Magsaysay's death (see FOREIGN NEWS), troubleshooting Chip Bohlen's work in the Philippines seems...
...wake of the court-martial order this week, Colonel Nickerson was busily getting into step with heady speculations that the U.S. might have on its hands a new Billy Mitchell. At week's end he put out a statement "to clarify my intentions in taking the action I did," in which he reiterated the Army's claim that it ought to have its own intermediate-range ballistic missile. "Both technically and tactically this weapon is very similar to artillery," he said, "and very dissimilar to aircraft." Nickerson's attorney, Robert K. Bell, former law partner of Alabama...
...agree with Guest Speaker Charles (Twenty One) Van Doren, who told the conference: "You can have faith in an audience. I have heard from so many people who say, 'Please, let's have something that stretches us a bit; let's have something that makes us wake up and even keeps us awake, because television so many times is a kind of soporific-we use it to go to sleep. Please,' they say, 'teach us; we want to know things...
...wake of Dictator Francisco Franco's government "crisis" and Cabinet shuffle (TIME, March 11), the café wits in Spain last week were passing around a punning version of the old Latin saw, Finis coronat opus (The end crowns the work). Crisis coronat Opus, they said, and the Opus they meant was Opus Dei-a little-known organization of Roman Catholic priests and laymen which, it was rumored, had nine or ten members in Franco's new 18-man Cabinet...
...boozy bounder who resembles one of Dostoevsky's moral idiots with gin instead of vodka to fuel his false fires. He is a middle-class spiv of genius, a portrait of all those who can make love or a piece of change among the ruins. In the wake of World War II armies, he had moved unerringly into the black market up the Italian peninsula into Vienna, but eventually he seemed condemned to living off his wife in London. The need for propaganda ("You just pick it up as you go along, boy") takes him to a last chance...