Word: wording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program. To help the President sell his program to Congress, there was Major General Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons, a genial, Scotch-sipping and thoroughly efficient Alabaman who succeeded flinty Sherman Adams as chief of the White House staff. Where Sherman Adams had long been a congressional cuss word, Jerry Persons was a longtime congressional favorite. Where Adams had let the merest handful of visitors get past him to see the President, Persons began opening the door. "This place is becoming a madhouse,'' said one White House staffer-but the result was to let the warm personality of Dwight...
...Columnist A. D. Gorwala in the Indian Express: "Let it be remembered that in complete contradiction of his usual practice of jumping eagerly into the discussion of any foreign affairs matter, Mr. Krishna Menon has kept his lips sealed in public about Communist Chinese aggression in Tibet. Not one word of condemnation of brutalities practiced, promises broken, suffering inflicted, has escaped his lips. What confidence can the people of India have if their armed forces are left under such direction...
Army officers were cheered by word last week that the U.S. will soon airlift supplies-such items as tents. Jeeps, small arms and radio sets-to aid them. But the main difficulty of staunchly anti-Communist Premier Phoui Sananikone lies in the fact that the poor, discontented, primitive half of Laos' 2,000,000 people have never developed loyalty to the central government...
...Legion of Merit for running a tight economy. The reason for such friendly gestures was typically stated in Pérez Jiménez' Legion of Merit citation. It commended him for his "spirit of friendship and cooperation" and for his "sound foreign-investment policies"-in a- word, for stability...
...scored it like music. Voice inflections, pitch, rhythms, everything seemed indicated by what would otherwise be pointless punctuation and irrational typography. "Elsa noticed it first, and I think she was the first to treat it that way. But it works! It works! Shakespeare tells you how to say every word...