Word: atomically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Columbia and Yale and running the SEC, his only opposition came from Senators who, astonishingly, thought he might be too conservative. Congress soon | learned otherwise. Three times Congressmen wanted to impeach him: in 1953, when he temporarily stayed the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for giving the U.S.S.R. atom bomb secrets; in 1966, when the thrice-divorced Douglas, then 67, married Cathleen Heffernan, then 23, and was accused by Kansas Republican Robert Dole of using "bad judgment from a matrimonial standpoint"; and in 1970, when House Minority Leader Gerald Ford accused Douglas of accepting a salary from the Parvin...