Word: deweyitis
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...most Americans are concerned, they stumbled into the Philippines in their sleep, awakening one morning in May 1898 to learn that Commodore George Dewey had steamed his four cruisers and two gunboats into Manila Bay and said: "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley." (One who wasn't surprised was Assistant...
Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt, who had taken advantage of the Secretary's absence to give Dewey the go-ahead.) It was a heady exploit, and made an overnight hero of Admiral Dewey; the headaches came later...
...hunh, Un-hunh. Energetic Ikeman Jim Duff of Pennsylvania had another card in the hole that he kept face down. During the Eisenhower visit, both he and New York's Governor Tom Dewey had talked to Ike by telephone from a Manhattan hotel suite. Neither would say what was said (an observer at Ike's end reported that the general said mostly "un-hunh, un-hunh"), but Dewey and Duff felt sufficiently confident to give marching orders to scores of G.O.P. bigwigs and littlewigs who trooped in & out of their suite for 36 hours. Then Duff hopped...
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...believes man's knowledge of God can expand as much as his knowledge of science: "The proudly impious yet persist in judging all religion by their own childhood memories . . . Perhaps it is well that [they] did not meet Albert Einstein until they got into Upper Division courses, John Dewey until they entered Teachers' College; or, on as good grounds as they can show for religion, they might have declared physics and philosophy unworthy of their notice...