Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Eisenhower was not at the field (he sent Vice President Nixon to greet Segni), and because the President took off on his California vacation right after having Segni to lunch. The person who seemed to mind least was Antonio Segni himself. Small and frail at 68, Sardinia-born Statesman Segni glided through his visit with a quiet confidence drawn from years of achievement...
...Harold E. Clancy and James E. Wechsler--"Nixon as President--Statesman or Politician...
Coldly Cruel. The worst furor of all broke when the New Delhi Statesman headlined the shocking news that India's popular and able army chief of staff, General K. S. Thimayya, had handed in his resignation. The reason: months of incessant bickering, especially about promotions in the armed forces, between Thimayya and the civilian Minister of Defense, crotchety, Mephistophelean Krishna Menon...
...stout ally, boosted German pride and self-respect, assured U.S. support, guaranteed that Germany's new-found democratic freedom would sot be traded off in big-power parleys. In France this week new tumults awaited Dwight Eisenhower, not only as the liberator of 1944 but as a statesman willing to help France realize its aspirations for a return to national greatness...
...Elder Statesman Harry Truman disclosed that he is taking another fling at "the authoring business," has signed up to turn out two new books. The first, Mr. Citizen, to be published next March, will express Truman's general views on today's world. The other, still untitled, but set for publication a year later, will be addressed to U.S. youth (10 to 16), and will set forth what junior citizens should know about U.S. history. Explained Author Truman of the latter project: "I hope to correct what I believe are some serious misconceptions of our past, particularly with...