Word: sures
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When President Harry Truman starts talking off the cuff, his advisers are never sure whether he's going to wind up with a blast at Wall Street or a side remark that sets his State Department to explaining that U.S. policy on Russia is unchanged. But when he dropped in at the Statler Hotel one night last week for a little off-the-cuff talk at a National Planning Association dinner, the President was all primed with a theme to suit his audience...
This trial would be remembered and discussed for many years. One lesson was presently and dreadfully clear. Once the Communists had established their rule, no man, however strong, could be sure of maintaining his integrity. Mindszenty, looking forward to martyrdom, had quoted St. Paul: "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain...
That, thought a Tory housewife in Southwark, was as may be. This particular picture was a long way from proving it. She took another look, then bustled over to the cupboard. There, sure enough, was the selfsame picture, neatly pasted in an old scrapbook. She had clipped it from the Daily Express, dated June 10, 1936, when Stanley Baldwin and his Tories were in charge. Its caption read, "Exclusive picture of Prince Edward,* baby son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent...
Veteran reporters demanded proof. Miel Asquia waved a paper at them. A reporter from Noticias Graficas grabbed it, examined it minutely. Sure enough, it carried the names of such party stalwarts as Mercante, Hector Campora, chief of the capital's Peronistas, and Miel Asquia himself. Every newspaper in Buenos Aires, including Señora Perón's Democracia, reported that Article 77, which forbids two successive terms for Presidents, would go unchanged...
...accepted leader has only to be sure of what it is best to do, or at least to have made up his mind . . . The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes, they must be covered. If he sleeps, he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good he must be poleaxed. But this last extreme process cannot be carried out every day; and certainly not in the days just after he has been chosen...