Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of her strenuous tour across the U.S. with her husband, Nina Petrovna Khrushchev, 59, returned to Washington, agreed at last to hold a VIP-sized press conference ("not customary in my country") for eager newswomen. Self-possessed and pleasant, Nina Petrovna made a big hit, even got a laugh when in careful English she kidded Jinx Falkenburg (who was present as Pat Nixon's guest) about her beehive-shaped hat: "You look like a Ukrainian bride, no?" With the promise that "I will give you some bits of information you desire," Mrs. Khrushchev laid down some homey...
Whenever one of his subordinates suggested that an extra bodyguard might be a good thing to have around, wiry, fragile-looking Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, 60, would only laugh. Proud of being known as "the people's Premier" of Ceylon, "Banda" refused to worry about personal safety, almost every morning would throw open his rambling bungalow on Colombo's shady Rosemead Place to all who wanted...
...diplomats and business executives, and in public question-and-answer debates with U.S. businessmen and newsmen before TV crowds of millions. And as the trip piled climax upon climax, it was Khrushchev himself-with his peasant's roughhewn politeness and witty proverbs and knack of making others laugh; with his politician's adeptness at choosing which questions to answer, dodge or bull through; with his dictator's unpredictable pace changes from toothy grins to sudden shouts; with his Marxist's igth century-model sureness that capitalism, like feudalism, was doomed by a simple process of history...
Sharp Answers. But Nikita Khrushchev was gaining understanding of a sort. He threw himself into his answers; he never faltered in setting down the Soviet line. He demonstrated clearly that he is no clown, although he knew how to draw a laugh when he wanted one. He stumbled-perhaps artfully-half a dozen times. Once he apologized for accidentally calling U.S. newsmen "comrades," once referred to the tenth anniversary of the revolution in "America" when he meant China. When he was asked about his celebrated "We will bury you" gibe at the U.S., Khrushchev explained calmly that capitalism was doomed...
...text on California weather, disarmament, how Los Angeles smog resembled the cold war, then looked at Mayor Poulson. "I want to ask you," he said, "why did you mention that? Already in the U.S. I have clarified that. I trust that even mayors read." The crowd gave Khrushchev a laugh and a round of applause. "In our country," Khrushchev went on, "chairmen of councils who do not read the press risk not being re-elected." The crowd gave Khrushchev another big hand; two-time Mayor Poulson turned crimson. Then Khrushchev went on: "Ladies and gentlemen, you want...