Word: firsthand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...souks and streets, the veiled Bedouin women greeting their first President with eerie, unearthly noises made, explained Huntley, by "bending their tongues back over their soft palates and screaming-making the tongues vibrate." The interview with Bourguiba was boiled down to 35 minutes, and the result was a candid, firsthand look at a handsome, vigorous personality who spent 27 years, half of them in jail or exile, freeing his country. After a warmup detailing his early, near-bloodless fight against the French and the ruling dynasty, Bourguiba said that French troops in Tunisia were "embarrassing" to him and "endangering...
Meanwhile, McCulloch was poring over official tracts, planning-commission documents and sociologists' reports, and roaming more than 3,000 miles over the sprawling city in pursuit of more than 50 interviews. To get firsthand views of the operation, Associate Editor Alvin M. Josephy Jr., in charge of the picture project, and Contributing Editor Jesse L. Birnbaum, writer of this week's story, flew to California and joined the air and ground forces...
...TIME'S Paris correspondent got his information from firsthand observation and from notable churchmen present, including two bishops and a monsignor whose reliability is beyond question. The Worker Priest topic was not on the agenda, but it was discussed in a full report made by the Archbishop of Bourges under the title "Les Grandes Orientations." This part of the archbishop's discussion will not be published officially for the same reason that the topic did not appear on the agenda...
Like Humphrey, Bob Anderson is a solid businessman-and 20 years younger. Like Humphrey, he is a good man to turn to in moments of crisis. But Anderson also has a firsthand knowledge not only of the U.S.'s defenses but of the perils and opportunities of cold war; e.g., last summer President Eisenhower secretly sent Anderson to the Middle East to pave the way for King Saud's U.S. visit, which in turn paid massive premiums during the recent Jordanian crisis...
...striking broadcast, not so much for the words that made headlines, but because it gave the U.S. its only firsthand, sustained view of what manner of man runs the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. The view bore little resemblance to the popular image of the off-duty, semicomic, garrulous Khrushchev tippling his way through diplomatic receptions. This was Khrushchev during office hours, not only sober but sobering: a tough, shrewd, vigorous man with the air of confident command. In sharp contrast to China's Chou Enlai, who cautiously read his answers to selected written questions...