Word: d
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tears the newspaper to shreads all over the floor. He gobbles my socks. It drives me nuts. It reminds me how much he wants to go out and run around in the street. He'd be killed if he did. Dogs should be allowed to grow up on big farms, and run around over the fields, and know all kinds of dog things about the land that we could never know...
...convinced President Dwight Eisenhower to take up painting, and he himself painted the last portrait from life of Sir Winston Churchill as Prime Minister. Other Stephens portraits now hang in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, in the Harry S Truman Library in Independence, Mo., and in the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library at Abilene, Kansas. This is Dwight Eisenhower's 17th appearance on a TIME cover...
...searching diligently for men to direct the battles he foresaw. The blunt fact remained that after 30 years as a professional soldier, Eisenhower's permanent rank had gone no higher than lieutenant colonel. So little was he known that photo captions of the exercises listed him as "Lieut. Colonel D. D. Ersenbeing...
...most awesome military machine the world had yet seen, eventually to number more than 4,000,000 men. Landing first in North Africa, his men stormed the beaches of Sicily, pushed up through Southern Italy, then finally prepared to attack Hitler's Festung Europa itself. Target: Normandy. D-day was set for June 5, 1944, but bad weather over the English Channel, the worst in years, forced postponement. There was only a tiny gleam of hope?better weather forecast for the 6th?and Eisenhower made the most momentous decision of his career...
...remains is to record his "friend" in a storm. "I freely admit that I'm in love with that little tree," he said. "I want the storm to buffet her, but I hope she doesn't get hurt. If anybody chopped her down, I think I'd kill him." And he added: "My life is fulfilled. I can understand with greater intimacy than ever the relationship that binds all growing things...