Word: famous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With his famous other hand, Johnson signaled that the U.S. was not going to accept the North Korean action meekly. Accordingly, he called up 14,787 Air Force and Navy Reservists, mobilized 372 inactive aircraft, hinted that some ground troops might follow, and thus released hundreds of operational war planes for service in Japan and South Korea. Ironically, the Korean crisis thus gave Johnson an unsought dividend by enabling him to activate reserve units-a move he had seriously contemplated to alleviate serious shortages in Viet Nam but had rejected as too risky politically...
...inveterate bush traveler himself, dad went out into the northern hinterlands to cut up the fearful tales about the ravages of "timber wolves that would tear a man to pieces" for the fantastic fabrications that they were, and to gather the material for wolf stories that made this newspaper famous and for his later book Wolves Don't Bite, now out of print...
...contributions to date are impressive. Established in Boston in 1837 during a severe depression, its founders had enough faith in the future of New England letters to take the risk. The company at first leaned heavily on law-and textbooks, publishing some of the most famous U.S. legal treatises, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes's The Common Law. Gradually it moved into general literature, publishing Louisa May Alcott, Edward Everett Hale, Emily Dickinson and William Prescott's histories. Admiral A. T. Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power Upon History remolded military thought when it appeared...
...famous telephone numbers advertising love at any time are identical except for the first of seven digits. What are the numbers, and whose are they...
...Columbia University, for example, he remembers being confronted by the cult of failure that imbued most of his fellow students. They felt that while sex was a natural and admirable passion, a hunger for worldly success was ignoble. For a star student who wanted to be a great and famous poet, that attitude quite naturally caused some troubling guilt feelings...