Word: eisen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drops of water ... an unseasonable cloud crossing the sky. sufficed for the overthrow of a world." In 1944 the Allied invasion of Normandy was made possible by a narrow interval of reasonably good weather between the bad. It was so narrow, in fact, that Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisen hower later expressed gratitude to "the gods of war." Paganism dies hard...
...Florida to the peeling stoops of Boston's South End. Public health officials and gerontologists were tapped for their views, but the most poignant interviews were with old people - and their often guilt-anguished children. Goldman, Associate Editor Peter Stoler, who wrote the story, and Reporter Gail Eisen, who researched it, were moved by the agony that millions of older Americans endure, but are hopeful that U.S. society is finding ways to pro vide what Stoler calls "the concerned, humane care to which the elderly are entitled...
...deceptions might have gone unnoticed even longer had not Rosenfeld exaggerated his own importance. One of the letters of recommendation over Dressler's signature indicated that Rosenfeld single-handed had thought up the whole idea for the research project. That hyperbole aroused the suspicion of M.I.T. Immunologist Herman Eisen, who had reviewed the recommendation. Eisen mentioned it to Dressier-and the chain of forgeries was unfolded...
...tailored blue blazer, striped shirt and blue-and-white tie - the same outfit he had worn on his return to Athens- Caramanlis appeared to a tumultuous welcome and a display of fireworks that was far and away the most colorful and expensive of the three rallies. He was the Eisen hower of the campaign, a father figure who, despite the fashionable crowd, appealed to Greeks from every walk of life...
...story presented a different sort of problem for Gail Eisen, who spent several weeks sifting through mountains of Watergate reportage. She was especially interested in locating White House denials of specific Watergate stories and then ascertaining whether the stories or the denials had been correct. "It was often frustrating," she says, "but having begun digging on any one of them, I couldn't give up. It turned out that the press had committed precious few errors...