Word: appears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just 90 minutes before Dwight Eisenhower was due to appear at a conference of Republican women in Washington's Hotel Statler last week, the women's publicity director for the Republican National Committee, Mrs. Anne Wheaton. got a phone call from her old friend, Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty. Everything fine? Jim wanted to know. Anne Wheaton said yes. "Then," said the astonished Mrs. Wheaton later, "he asked me if I had a chair handy." Hagerty had a piece of news: the President had decided (thanks to Hagerty's good word) to appoint her associate press secretary...
...Force has solved an unusual personnel problem. A brilliant commander of the vital SAC and one of the military's finest organizers, Curt LeMay had held his post for eight years, too long for any soldier in one job, so long that he was beginning to appear the indispensable man in the Air Force's top field command. He had been thought of by some top Pentagon names as too tough a bull for the Washington china shop. Now at last on the Washington scene, LeMay will succeed General Thomas D. White, who has been promoted to Chief...
...would like to cut them still more if their NATO allies will agree. More drastically, the Second Tactical Air Force in Germany will be cut in half. Both cuts will be somewhat offset, but not overcome, by supplying the remaining forces with atomic weapons. Aware that all this might appear to Europeans as an insular retreat, Sandys acknowledged that "the frontiers of the free world . . . must be firmly defended on the ground...
...come that Vespasian's legionaries, clanking up the road from Caesarea, were already at Jericho, less than seven miles to the north. Before they moved on Jerusalem, the Romans would surely fall upon the Community by the Dead Sea. Perhaps then, at last, the prophesied messiah would appear...
...literary agent, many of the letters are filled with denials of literate autobiographical intent, and concern law suits brought by individuals who felt themselves so pilloried. Yet the letters seem to point more clearly to how closely Wolfe did live his novels. The germs of so many incidents appear with the natural infelicity of statement characteristic of correspondence that make one wonder by what marvelous transformation his life was so skillfully wrought into art. And on another level, the letters wonderfully reveal the feeling and personalities of the time. Particularily interesting is his correspondence and flighty friendship with the decaying...