Word: statesmanly
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...Kuan Yew, prime minister of the city-state of Singapore, is a mayor who talks as though he may one day be a world statesman...
...Grand Prizewinner Smith, he was understandably "surprised and delighted," will use the money to buy a house in London. "It was a good year for me," he adds, "because no country was showing a living elder statesman...
Rocky, for his part, remained rigidly faithful to Romney, and ignored Republican moderates who insist that he rev up his own well-oiled presidential machine. All of a sudden the mellow elder statesman, Rockefeller allowed: "Something happens in life and you lose ambition because you have fulfillment. There are things that happen inside. I'm not a psychiatrist or a psychologist. I can't analyze it for you exactly. But I just don't have the ambition or the need or inner drive-or whatever the word is-to get in again. I've never been...
...last boxing event got under way the night of May 5, 1925, the gravelly voice of Announcer Joe Humphreys boomed over the crowd: "Farewell to thee, O Tem ple of Fistiana, farewell to thee, O sweet Miss Diana." He climbed from the ring, sobbing. Next day Lawyer-Statesman Elihu Root and Fight Promoter Tex Rickard stood together bare headed in the rain as a derrick lowered Diana from her pedestal...
Died. Clarence Belden Randall, 76, elder statesman of the steel industry, who was president (1949-53) and board chairman (1953-56) of Chicago's Inland Steel Co., No. 7 U.S. producer, but was better known as a forwardthinking internationalist, championing the Marshall Plan as its first steel ad viser and in 1953 heading Eisenhower's Foreign Economic Policy Commission which convinced Congress to take a few halting steps to lower U.S. trade barriers; of a heart attack; in Ishpeming, Mich...