Word: burg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teapot Tempest. There were, in the South and elsewhere, editors who resisted the call to arms, pointing out instead that Ike's and Monty's hindsights on Gettys burg only reflect a verdict long accepted by the U.S. Army and most historians: it was Lee's worst-fought battle. Columnist Pie Dufour observed in the New Orleans States: "These armchair generals are on solid ground, believe it or not." And the Raleigh, N.C. News and Observer argued that Lee's own view of his performance at Gettysburg was at variance with the "Southern Oratory" used...
...Thomas, whose letter [March 18] got under my skin: Did you ever stop to think that the trouble lies with the guy you married, who entertains you by dropping off to sleep every night, and not by the lack of concerts, theaters and dances in Baltimore, your "lousy burg...
...which I hate. For such a huge country I think its lack of traditions, glamour and culture disgusting. Furthermore, tiny England is always being criticized, but Russia, nearer your own size, gets away with anything, including murder. I'm just saving until I can skip this lousy burg...
...Poynters started CQ in 1945 after a hitch of wartime information service in Washington. Both were old journalistic hands: Nelson as editor of the St. Peters burg (Fla.) Times, owned by his family; Henrietta as foreign editor for Conde Nast in Europe. They started Congressional Quarterly, says Henrietta, "when we found that, though Washington had more than 1,000 reporters, nobody was really doing a job on Congress...
...Burg speculated that the boys chose last Saturday night for the attack because they knew of a young people's dance at near-by Temple Emanuel, a Newton synagogue...