Word: thoughtfullness
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"Terribly Regrettable." Shocked and humiliated, Louis Johnson wrote his resignation: "It was inevitable, in the conscientious performance of my duties as Secretary of Defense, that I would make more enemies than friends." With Harry Truman's consent, Johnson drew to the President's "thoughtful attention" the name of...
"I had pictured myself as defending civil liberties," said Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas last week. "And yet," he added, "there is a Communist danger in this country." Standing in the old Supreme Court chamber where the Senate is temporarily housed, thoughtful Paul Douglas summed up the feelings of other...
But the New Statesman is read, and it does make money. Editor Martin says proudly: "I am proud of the fact that the paper has grown in influence and circulation without ever having consciously . . . played down to its audience or become less thoughtful. If it is to be called highbrow...
An assiduous and thoughtful workman who shuns the babble of Washington party going (he plows through a briefcase full of documents every night at his Chevy Chase home), Dean is well-liked in the capital and on good terms with the powerful and ofttimes crotchety congressional Atomic Energy Committee. But...
Even the Review's traditional English lessons for Chinese readers have become party-line jabberwocky. One recent issue analyzed the sentence: "Pa may be a thoughtful union man in the shop, but when he picks up a magazine, he likes to study the ads for new cars." The Review...