Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...more he campaigned, the more he seemed endowed with the same charisma that won and held popularity for Dwight Eisenhower. In appearance he is a slender man with a boyish face, an uncontrollable shock of hair, a dazzling smile. In manner he is alert, incisive, speaking in short, terse sentences in a chowderish New England accent that he somehow makes attractive (even when he pronounces Cincinnati as "Since-in-notty" in Cincinnati), reaching with no apparent effort into a first-class mind for historical anecdotes or classical allusions. Like Ike, who is 27 years his senior, he projects a kind...
Blunt Saying. On a motion of censure against the government, the opposition piled up an impressive 207 votes, only 70 short of the number needed to defeat the bill and overturn the government. But the opposition was stronger in numbers than in cohesion: the 207 votes came from a coalition stretching from far right to far left, from men who, on most issues, hate each other more intensely than they dislike De Gaulle. It represented, nevertheless, the most defiant gesture by Parliament since De Gaulle took power...
Sunday: John turned out to be a typical Harvard glamour boy with a crew haircut, broad A accent, short trousers, and all the fixing... After three ales he kept mumbling something about sticking to his ideals and keeping away from the "wolff" even if it meant flunking out next semester...
...short, the new President must make the long over-due adjustment to a world of thermo-nuclear weapons and emerging nations, and must apply American understanding and initiative to the problems of this different world...
...campaign of Rep. William H. Meyer, whose championing of the peace issue has left him open for a smear-job along all too familiar lines. Another victory for him this year in conservative Vermont would be the peak in a series of surprises on which Meyer has built his short political career...