Word: donning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Of course General de Gaulle and I have agreed long since that at the first opportunity we would talk together [on] all of the matters where we don't quite see eye to eye . . . and see if we can do something about it," said the President at his press...
Called before the committee was the Navy's volatile virtuoso. Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover, 59 (see Diplomacy), who only a few months before casually told another committee: "I myself don't get pressured by outsiders, but they do go higher up and get pressure put on me that...
By week's end, Hébert's committee, satisfied so far that the uses of retired officers' influence had not gone beyond proper bounds, put off further hearings on the subject till another time. Said Hébert: "Some people have said this committee will be...
A trained economist, educated at posh Westminster and at Oxford, Gaitskell preaches a brand of socialism that leftists talk scornfully of as "milk and water" ("If we want to snore ourselves to Sweden, this is the way"). As his closest advisers, he prefers university-trained economists rather than the men...
It's all good clean fun, especially for customers who like John Wayne and don't care much about Grierson's Raid. For those who do not like Wayne there is William Holden, who comes along for the ride as a military surgeon, and prescribes penicillin, or...