Word: wordly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nixon (as the electrician began to shout): He's like Mr. Khrushchev-he always gets the last word...
...file of material on the lost city, considered what photographer would be best for the job, asked the Rome bureau to check whether any photographer there had taken any color pictures of the place that might serve for guidance. Back came Rome Bureau Chief Walter Guzzardi with the word that, while covering a political story in Libya, he took a day off to visit Leptis Magna, and was so impressed that he took some of his own color pictures. He sent along his take, thinking that it "might help show what the place looks like...
Inspecting Nixon's Boeing 707 jet, Khrushchev said he would like to visit the U.S. "when the time is ripe." In Geneva, where the Big Four foreign ministers' conference sputtered toward a stalemated end, word leaked that the U.S. had sounded out its allies on inviting Khrushchev and found them in favor...
...General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, leading off for the government, the Devlin commission had found no reliable evidence that a "massacre" was about to take place. But then, said the Attorney General, the Colonial Secretary, in explaining to the House what had gone on in Nyasaland, had used the word "massacre" only once. "Apparently," snorted Labor's Colonial Expert James Callaghan, "if the Right Honorable Gentleman says it once, we are not to take him seriously...
...Kong last week, experts on Red China read and reread this statement: "To speak of greatness in a man is not to say that he is always correct." What lent fascination to this seemingly innocuous sentence from Peking's New China SemiMonthly was the fact that the Chinese word it used for "greatness" is one the Reds usually reserve for Mao Tse-tung. With customary bafflegab. Peking was publicly admitting that Chairman Mao has been forced into a humiliating retreat by the stubbornness of "The Old Hundred Names"-Red China's faceless peasant masses...