Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lashing out at what he termed "the smear element" in the Eisenhower campaign, Harriman particularly challenged the General on the corruption issue. "Corruption should not be attributed solely to the Democratic Party. Few of those men under suspicion are Democratic appointees. Corruption is not the main issue of this campaign. Rather it is foreign policy with which we should be concerned...
Professional politicians, in general, urged Ike to take the second course. If he had followed their advice and backed Nixon completely from the start, there is no doubt that Ike would have choked off much of the anti-Nixon clamor simply by removing the element of dramatic suspense from the case. But if Ike had done that, it would have sounded like an echo of the Truman "loyalty," the complacent quality in the Administration that has caused what men of both parties recognize as "the mess in Washington." Ike was neither impetuous nor smug about the Nixon crisis. He admitted...
With the finish line only eleven games away, the time element was working hard for the league leaders. But the Yankees were playing most of their remaining games on the road, Brooklyn was plainly jittery from the pressure, and no team could yet claim a clear track to the World Series...
...Only one element of her new job worries Mrs. Schumacher. "I never forget faces and never remember names. Perhaps because all my life I've come to new places as a sinleton, and people have had to learn my name. Now, I must learn theirs--105 of them...
...that Conant has always been followed--at a distance of course--by hordes of undergraduates worshipping in his tootsteps. During the 30's when political activity tan unchecked through the streets of Cambridge. Conant was a frequent target for extremist student groups. The far left-wing element regularly denounced him as "a tool of Wall Street." This attitude was exemplified by an article in "The Nation" by a former head of the University News Office who denounced Conant, but added that "I hardly expect the University to thumb its nose at the Wall Street bankers who now help administer...