Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smoke from thousands of homes laid a foglike pall over the city, Ike's mission moved toward a high point. He rode out of town again to lay a wreath at the Ataturk Mausoleum. There he shed his topcoat in the chill evening air, laid a wreath of white and red carnations, stood with head bowed. So many flashbulbs flashed in his face that he seemed a bit blinded. "Do you mind if I take your arm?" he said to a Turkish official as they walked away...
...America will not-indeed, it cannot -tolerate for long the crippling of the entire economy as the result of labor-management disputes in any one basic industry," said the President midway in the speech delivered from the White House just before he took off for Europe and Asia. "The choice," said he, "is up to free American employers and American employees. Voluntarily, in the spirit of free collective bargaining, they will act responsibly; or else, in due course, their countrymen will see to it that they do act responsibly...
Lanky Neil McElroy eased through a cluster of photographers in the White House conference room and shook the hand of the darkly handsome man standing by the fireplace. "Take charge, boy," he said, with a broad grin. "This is what you call the first team going in." A few minutes later, while President Eisenhower and the Pentagon's top brass looked on approvingly, Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr., 53, was sworn in as the nation's seventh Secretary of Defense...
Under One Roof. With his monocle, his grey, lavender-tinted gloves, his white forelock setting off Italianate good looks, Whistler cultivated an exotic showmanship to mask self-doubts about his craft. The company he kept added a satanic touch by being mad, neurasthenic, and sexually deviate or profligate. The most colorful of the odd lot was Charles Augustus Howell. One of his exploits was to dig up the coffin of Elizabeth Rossetti by moonlight to retrieve a manuscript her grieving husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, had buried with the body. Howell housed his wife, a bevy of artistically inclined mistresses...
...Elements of Style, Strunk and White...