Word: elihu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...local revolt and sent American warships to block the landing of Colombian troops. Congressional doves objected to the gunboat diplomacy, but they were drowned out by T.R.'s perorations on manifest destiny. With the birth of the U.S.-sponsored Republic of Panama, the witty Secretary of War, Elihu Root, told his President, "You have shown that you were accused of seduction and you have conclusively proved that you were guilty of rape...
...Elihu Bergman, assistant director of the Center for Population Studies, not only provides the campaign of Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) with research papers on social policy issues such as birth control, but also actively arranges for other professors to advise Jackson...
Foreign Affairs was and is an unusual journalistic enterprise. Its circulation is only 73,000, but guided by Armstrong's intelligence, it became a sort of house organ for world leaders. In the first issue-which Lenin read carefully-former U.S. Secretary of State Elihu Root proclaimed America's global destiny. Other contributors have included Leon Trotsky, Nikita Khrushchev and, in 1967, Richard Nixon, who explained the necessity for stabilized relations with mainland China...
Instead of walking from the Yard to Memorial Hail you may soon be running on the "Elihu Yale track" or across the "Nathan Pusey Stadium" if Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci...
...What is to stop me from planting a rock somewhere on Harvard which says that Elihu Yale founded Harvard? In 100 years people would find it and believe it," Vellucci added...