Word: whispers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...visit-the first French mission to Moscow at that level since 1956. If De Gaulle's envoy was there to lend the Russians nothing more than an ear, this itself was interesting, since the Russians seemed to have something that they would like to whisper into it-talk of a new move against West Germany. In recent months the Russians have been hinting at an interest in renewing the moribund Franco-Soviet treaty of December 1944, under which De Gaulle and Stalin agreed to "eliminate any new menace from Germany." Although no one thought that De Gaulle was ready...
...glad, it seemed, to talk about something besides politics. "The Twins, of course," he replied. "Why, they're all from Washington. They were there when I was there." He leaned forward, as if to let me in on the latest Kremlin shake-up, and confided almost in a stage whisper, "I'd be for the Dodgers against anyone else. I'll tell you one thing: Sandy Koufax is the greatest pitcher." After that, he lost me; he babbled on, and I just nodded my head. I finally dragged him off baseball, but we continued to watch the Series, and when...
...Ambassadors are the eyes and ears of states," says the classic definition. This calls to mind some Rembrandtian statesman returning from a foreign court to whisper a few words of intelligence into the ear of a king. As expanded by the State Department, the job of reporting has thousands of bevested young officers obsessively sending millions of words to Washington. With his tongue only barely tucked in his cheek, Thomas A. Donovan, former U.S. consul in Iran, writes: "Background studies on such live topics as Recurrent Themes in the Bulgarian Press Treatment of the Black...
...days among business, education and culture. Carter serves as a director of Pacific TelePhone & Telegraph, Northrop, Southern California Edison, United-California Bank and Western Bancorporation, as a trustee of the Brookings Institution and Occidental College and as a director of the Stanford Research Institute. Though his rimless glasses and whisper-quiet voice give him the air of a professor (he once declined an offer from the Harvard Business School to become one), Carter is still a shrewd salesman. When he was asked to raise 12 million to help build the Los Angeles Art Museum, he persuaded 23 acquaintances to donate...
...word Calcutta to most Americans, and they think of saried Indians bathing in the Ganges and sacred cows basking in the middle of dirty thoroughfares. But say Calcutta to the member of a golf club, and he is apt to look nervously to either side and whisper, "Shhhh! How did you know we were having one this year?" Until 1955, a Calcutta was an integral -and often the most fun-part of every golf tournament. A few days before a member-member tournament, or on the night before a member-guest, a properly anointed auctioneer would "sell" each team...