Word: cyrus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ninth attempt makes clear, the impression that he was a callous killer is no less deluded than Patton's own self-image. He absolutely believed that he was the "reincarnation" of an archetypal fighting man wHo had once "battled for fresh mammoth," had fought in a phalanx against Cyrus the Persian, on Crécy's field in the Hundred Years' War, in all the great campaigns since...
...year, he had a limited future in the combined C. & O.-B. & O. In another round of management shuffles earlier this year, C. & O. Vice President Gregory S. DeVine took over the presidency, as Walter J. Tuohy moved up to vice chairman and chief executive officer (Cleveland's Cyrus S. Eaton remains chairman). DeVine will eventually head both railroads when the physical merger is complete...
...veterans: "Let me stress that these small conventional nuclear weapons are no more powerful than the firepower you have faced on the battlefield. They simply come in a smaller package." Barry's argument was directly disputed two days later before the same audience by Deputy Defense Secretary Cyrus R. Vance, who snapped: "How 'conventional' was the 'small' weapon over Hiroshima? The typical tactical weapon was several times its yield, and the nuclear firepower available to a single infantry division is hundreds of times the destructive force of the bombs which destroyed both Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...thriving cities where the art was fashioned-Marlik, Shapur, Kashan, Nishapur, Tepe Hissar-have crumbled into oblivion. The fabled rulers and scourges of Persia-Cyrus the Great, Darius the Great, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan-are dust. But a woman's bronze bracelet, a golden goblet, a statue of an ibex with circleted horns remain to testify to the enduring victory that art wins over time...
...Rube Goldbergs. In the patent field, the day of an Eli Whitney, a Cyrus McCormick-or even a Rube Goldberg at work alone in a basement workshop-is largely over. Today, big corporations and the Government account for 70% of all patents issued...