Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BATTLES IN THE MONSOON, by S.L.A. Marshall. Brigadier General "Slam" Marshall's thorough familiarity with the red visage of war produces a telling account of its Vietnamese aspect during one bloody campaign in the summer...
Barbara Ward, LL.D., British economist. Perceptive observer of international affairs, you have given the world a brilliant account of the political, social and economic dynamics of our time...
Barbara W. Tuchman, D.LET., historian. Breaking a hitherto unassailable male monopoly in the writing of military history, you produced in "The Guns of August" a model marriage of an accurate historical account written in fascinating and compelling narrative...
...architect who plans to change the world. His geodesic dome is the U.S. pavillion at Expo 67. Fuller was one of those seniors who had enlisted before Commencement in the Navy, where he served until 1919. One classmate described Fuller's mind as an "intellectual carnival." Fuller's own account of his life is less pedantic; "Born crosseyed. Abnormally farsighted. Corrected at four. Until then saw only large patterrns. Emphasis persisted after correction. Started young documenting against world developments, formalized as Chronofile 1917. Chronofile disclosed Newton's era world at rest supersded by Einstein's world constant change..." His four...
Despite his strong legal position, it is not at all clear that Powell can be helped by the courts in his struggle to regain his seat. Certainly Congressional precedent, although without the status of law, would have to be taken into account in any Supreme Court judgment. However, a confrontation between the highest judicial and legislative bodies in the nation would pose special difficulties...