Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occasional spot conferences, John leaves his eleven-man editorial-page staff pretty much alone. Des Moines rarely even bothers to check a stand with Mike. Instead, the staffs in both cities meet to hash out editorials, hear every man's views, try to reach a consensus, nearly always end up speaking in a Cowles tone of voice...
Across the U.S. the politicians and pundits studied the tea leaves of the 1958 elections and forecast the national future. If there was a consensus, it was that the nation has veered to the left after six years of steering down the middle of the road. Yet closer, subsurface examination of the election results raises doubt about that consensus; indeed there is strong evidence that the American voter intended to cast his ballot for moderation...
...Short, stocky and a shouter, Del Monaco commands ringing B-flats that have made a name for him in all the roles-Pagliacci's Canio, Samson, Aïda's Radames-in which vocal volume, height and brilliance are needed simultaneously. His interpretation of Otello, by critical consensus, is the finest in present-day opera...
...back from a few days at his Duck Island retreat to a capital hoping against hope that Red China would make its seven-day ceasefire on Quemoy permanent. Dulles conferred with Under Secretary of State Christian Herter and Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs Walter Robertson, hit a quick consensus that the Communists had stopped shooting because their artillery blockade of Quemoy had failed, and they were unwilling or unable to step up the pressures in the teeth of U.S. and Chinese Nationalist firmness. In Tokyo General Laurence S. Kuter, Pacific Air Forces commander, reviewing gun-camera pictures of Chinese...
...suppression of dissent. Papa knows best, and children should be seen and not heard. Unfortunately for Messrs. Eisenhower and Nixon, such is not the way of democracy. The presumption that the government is infallible has never been popularly accepted, and even bipartisanship is only viable in times of genuine consensus. Obviously, this is not one of those times...