Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...agreed, was that his prestige abroad was seriously damaged at a critical moment in diplomatic affairs. This week, dragging the G.O.P.'s clattering repudiation behind him, Acheson flew off to the Brussels conference aboard Truman's personal plane, the Independence. Alben Barkley and George Marshall were on hand to see him off, and Harry Truman sent word that Acheson has "my complete confidence...
...midpoint in the Civil War, some of Abraham Lincoln's fellow Republicans wanted him to dump Secretary of State Seward, as the "unseen hand" and "evil genius" who would not press for the immediate abolition of slavery. The dissidents, all congressional extremists, met secretly so as not to broadcast their lack of confidence in the Government at a perilous moment. Lincoln found out about the plot, maneuvered the extremists into backing down...
...moment both combatants glared, strained, breathed noisily and attempted to knee each other. Then they were separated again, by Senator Richard Nixon of California, who happened by. Next day McCarthy announced that he had slapped Pearson with his open hand and knocked him down. McCarthy's pal, Radiocaster Fulton Lewis Jr., solemnly reported that the Senator had lifted the columnist "three feet off the floor" with a solid punch delivered while rising from a sitting position. Pearson announced that the Senator had kicked him in the groin twice in a manner that no fight referee would tolerate, but didn...
EXPERIMENT is the rule throughout every phase of Tito's Yugoslavia, and the general result is regimented confusion. Much of the government resembles the experimental laboratory of a university: a lot of kids-some with textbooks still in hand-are trying to run a country...
Serving as Gandhi's right hand-some Indians said "fist" was a better word-Patel first showed a genius for leadership in his organization of civil disobedience campaigns against British land taxes, thereby won the unofficial title "Sardar" which means captain or leader. It was Patel whose iron will and political savvy converted the Indian National Congress from an association of petition writers into the effective organization which ran eight of India's eleven provinces even before the end of British rule...