Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President omitted the irritating word "patience" but frankly pointed out that "violent" federal actions would aggravate racial situations. Said he: "We are doing our best." Announced Union Boss Randolph approvingly after the meeting: "You remember Mr. Roosevelt? You must remember that he did most of the talking. He was a glamorous personality, and it was difficult to get a word in edgewise. Well, this man [Eisenhower] listened...
...After two months of civil war, he still refuses to say that he will not seek reelection, points only to his Premier's statement of last May that his government will not press this goal. "Since the crisis began," says a Beirut observer, "Chamoun has not said one word to his people. He talks only to foreign diplomats and foreign newsmen." He has declined to call Parliament into session; he has rejected repeated rebel - and third force - offers to compromise. He insisted last week that he has "a substantial majority in the country...
...strangers and began to talk. Once started, he talked so steadily and passionately that he left his breakfast of omelet and chicken untouched. Time and again, as he tried to explain and justify the terrible momentum of the nationalist rebellion in which he was caught up, the same word came out: injustice...
...text of a secret offer that he had written last April to Colonel George Grivas, leader of the Greek Cypriot terrorist organization EOKA: "I am prepared to go any place at any time you nominate to meet you. I would come alone and unarmed and would give you my word that for that day you would be in no danger of arrest...
...After viewing the site of the old family home (razed years ago), De Sapio, who speaks no Italian, walked through flower-and-confetti-strewn streets with the mayor, drew the hoopla reserved for rich visitors: a brass band, fireworks, cheering crowds. But with the splendor came word of Monteforte Irpino's terrible needs: the pastor asked Carmine to sponsor a sawmill in the factoryless village; the police chief wanted money for a sewage system. Smiling through it all, Democrat De Sapio promised to give $1,000 to the local orphanage, hospital and school, then climbed into his now-dusty...