Word: warmest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Even the warmest admirers of Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara agree that he is something less than the soul of diplomacy. His voice rasps with irritation at slower-witted subordinates; he has cut off soldiers and solons in mid-spiel. But while McNamara has effectively been shaking things up at the Pentagon, another man has effectively been soothing them down. He is Roswell L. Gilpatric, 55, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and by general agreement the most important No. 2 man in any department or agency of the New Frontier...
Warm Response. It was not the kind of message to go down well among some well-off Latinos, who are not in an initiating mood, but the message got a good reception among the campesinos Kennedy wanted to reach and won him the warmest press response given a U.S. president since Franklin D. Roosevelt, to whom he was often compared...
Last week U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, for whom Latin Americans have a great regard, got the warmest welcome in Brazil yet. On a ten-nation tour to discuss Kennedy's Alliance for Progress -and incidentally to see if anyone had changed his mind about joint action on Castro-he found expressions of friendship and enthusiastic talk about development. But it was still no sale on Castro...
...coldest of the titans of his time, but he will perhaps have left the warmest legacy. "Architecture," he once said, "goes beyond utilitarian needs. You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart. You do me good and I am happy and I say, 'This is beautiful.' That is Architecture. Art enters...
Leaning heavily on a silver-knobbed walking stick, Sir Winston Churchill, 86, clumped slowly into the House of Commons for the first time since he broke a bone in his back last November. Churchill's entrance was met with Commons' warmest welcoming growl of "Hear-hear-hear-hear," enthusiastically led by the member whose speech he had interrupted, Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell. Beaming, Sir Winston plumped himself down on the government front bench for half an hour, but in keeping with the self-imposed silence he has maintained in Parliament since his resignation as Prime Minister...