Word: firsthand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wine, finds that Americans abroad are much more candid and willing to be interviewed than in the U.S. For his popularity, Buchwald pays a heavy price. Says he: "Every atrocity that's committed by an American-or to an American-in Europe, I seem to hear about firsthand-they blame...
Until last week, Germany's Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was known in the U.S. only by recordings-and by reports from Europe-of her lyric soprano. Last week Manhattan music lovers packed into Town Hall for her U.S. debut, found out firsthand that she is one of the most polished sopranos alive...
...Active Service in Peace and War, except direct quotations, was written by McGeorge Bundy; and part of Hull's lengthy Memoirs was written by Andrew Berding and various State Department experts . . . Walter Muir Whitehall's Fleet Admiral King: A Naval Record . . . is a fusion of two firsthand accounts . . . and in the book's World War II narrative, it is sometime? difficult to tell what was actually seen by the commander in chief of the fleet and what was merely glimpsed by Whitehill from the Admiral's outer office...
...Editor Jonathan Norton Leonard (TIME, April 16, 1951). Aside from reading some 50 scientific journals each month, plus following an endless flow of reports and pamphlets, Leonard is constantly packing his bag, catching a train or plane to go to the source of a particular story for interviews and firsthand observation. These trips may range from a short visit to The Bronx Zoo (to spy on the activities of a surly platypus) to a 600-m.p.h. night flight in a radar-guided F94 to tell the story of the jet interceptors guarding the Atlantic coast...
...charges were equally convincing. A few, e.g., that the P.P.P. had "sought to undermine the position of ... the Boy Scouts," left some Britons with an uneasy feeling that the government was trying too hard to establish its case. The misgivings vanished last week when the nation got a firsthand look at what its home-grown Reds were calling "the suffering victims of imperialism...