Word: colorless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Days of McKinley, by Margaret Leech. A first-rate biography which, if it leaves Mark Hanna's picked President as colorless as ever, also leaves him better understood...
...Days of McKinley, by Margaret Leech. A first-rate biography which, if it leaves Mark Hanna's tame president as colorless as ever, also leaves him better understood...
...down Osmena's own father to campaign against him. Easy frontrunner among the 32 candidates for the eight Senate seats was Liberal Ferdinand Marcos, a handsome veteran of the Bataan Death March, who emerges as a man to watch in Philippine politics. Way down in 14th place was colorless Juan Pajo, who as Presidential Executive Secretary serves Garcia on his most delicate errands...
...Days of McKinley, by Margaret Leech. Pulitzer Prizewinner Leech's thoughtful recollection of a widely loved President who remained as colorless as a leader as he was gentle...
...from Mars said, "Take me to your leader" in the days of President McKinley, many an American might have answered, "What leader?" Few U.S. Presidents have exerted so colorless a leadership from the White House, and few have faded so quickly from the nation's memory. In a new biography, Pulitzer Prizewinner Margaret (Reveille in Washington) Leech thoughtfully recalls a President who was widely loved, sincerely devoted to his country and to the Christian virtues, but who remained even in historic moments (as Author Leech puts it) "the captive of caution and indirection." Her biography gives McKinley...