Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until last spring, Gen. Eisenhower was on the way to being as unsuccessful a President as was Gen. Grant. Like Gen. Grant, he was bewildered and helpless m dealing with a government that was usurping his powers. He was retreating before McCarthy. He was failing to defend the executive branch of the government and to uphold the integrity of his personnel. The tide began to turn when the Army, to be sure with his rather gingerly support, turned on McCarthy and fought back on the question of who was to run the Army. And this was followed by the President...
...Wollope: A region of superior cultivation-in what branch of science do its gentlemen excel...
...that he "rooted the Communists out of Government." Like most myths, this had a basis. There were, calamitously. Communists and Communoids in the U.S. Government. Joe did little to root them out. But he learned, to the dismay of his colleagues, to the shame of the executive branch and to the delight of the press, how to bay the loudest when others were following the scent. The myth of McCarthy, The Red Hunter, was hard to kill during the Truman Administration, which had gone on record as considering some of the most serious and necessary Red hunts as "red herrings...
Leaders of Reform Judaism, well to the theological left of the Conservative branch, have for the most part abandoned Kethubahs and other impediments to divorce in favor of "moral suasion." They consider the Conservatives' change-the first such major innovation to be attempted in nearly 1,000 years-as "academic...
...late. "We have here a sort of cork in the bottle" said President Eisenhower, of Indo-China Said Vice President Nixon, amid the sullen thunder of Dienbienphu : "If, to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia, we must take the risk of putting our boys in, I think the executive branch has ... to do it." But though the U.S. was spending about $800 million a year in Indo-China by war's end, it kept out of the shooting...