Word: words
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Returning to Washington, the delegation carried Ike's word to a meeting of the full committee. By acclamation, tall, trim (6 ft. 2 in., 185 Ibs.) Thruston Morton, 51, was elected, summoned to make his maiden speech. Said the new boss from the Bluegrass: "In 1960 we are going to have proven champions carrying our banner. We are going to have proven stake winners. There'll be no selling platers in our barn...
...strange mood. Some critics too hurriedly raised the old cry of appeasement, leading the Spectator to retort waspishly: "For the Germans, of all people, to accuse Mr. Macmillan of wanting to do another 'Munich' is a little indelicate." Munich is obviously not the right word. But Britain-public, press and government-is plainly at odds with its allies. It lives on greater hopes and conjures up greater fears...
After his Moscow trip, Macmillan first talked of "disengagement,"' then softened this to the possibility of a "thinning out" of troops, then of a "freeze" at existing levels, and currently the fashionable word is a "ceiling" on troop strengths. But rather than having specific proposals, Macmillan seems simply eager to have something to talk about, and to be convinced that talking is all to the good. He has even begun to speak of a "re-occurring summit''-a kind of periodically assembled global board of directors...
Last week word came that the Dalai Lama had reached safety in the village of Towang, just across the Indian border. His two-week march to the frontier, it was said, had been screened from Red planes by mist and low clouds conjured up by the prayers of Buddhist holy...
...group of merchants, lawyers and real estate wizards, known as the "Bay Street Pirates" to Nassau taxi drivers, began the boom nine years ago. They spread the word that these British crown-colony islands have no income taxes, no personal property taxes, no real estate taxes, no capital gains taxes, trifling inheritance taxes. Now, says Attorney Stafford Sands, leading Bay Streeter, "there's a definite feeling of yeastiness about the whole American investment picture...