Word: beast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LINCOLN'S SCAPEGOAT GENERAL, by Richard S. West Jr. Next to McClellan, the Union's most controversial Civil War general was Benjamin ("Beast") Butler. Like McClellan, he was weak in the field, but he was an efficient military governor of New Orleans and a doughty champion of liberal causes during the Reconstruction...
LINCOLN'S SCAPEGOAT GENERAL, by Richard S. West Jr. Next to McClellan, the Union's most controversial Civil War general was Benjamin ("Beast") Butler. Like McClellan, he was weak in the field, but he was an efficient military governor of New Orleans and a doughty champion of liberal causes during the Reconstruction...
...remedied by Britain's Lord Kinross, a Turcophile (Within the Taurus) who has known some of Atatürk's principal associates for many years. In this acute and readable biography, Kinross sometimes oversimplifies the period but never underplays the complex and astonishing nature of the beast he is examining...
LINCOLN'S SCAPEGOAT GENERAL, by Richard S. West Jr. "The Beast"-Benjamin Butler-was one of the Civil War's toughest Northern generals. He earned Southerners' undying hatred as the governor of occupied New Orleans, became a fervent champion of liberal causes during the Reconstruction. West succeeds admirably in separating an unusual man from the usually accepted image of the Beast...
...jampacked tub room in the Delta Upsilon house Then the rock-'n'-roll show started blasting out the top pop tunes while the TV screen filled up with frenzied Hullabalooers twisting and shouting. ' There she is," shouted a D.U., spotting a favorite blonde dancer. "Go, beast, go! Most of the comments were in the same vein: sexual fascinations mingled with snobbish derision. For students never watch in silence; half the fun is Jetting go: "Get her name-she's terrible," " God, my eyes are crossing...