Word: fostered
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...citizen of West Germany, one gets more and more the impression that since John Foster Dulles died, nobody among the Western Allies is really able to resist the Russian threat...
...courted sporadically for five years-on O'Brien's terms. "It was always going to political rallies, or running over to see what the city council was doing," recalls Elva O'Brien. "That was Larry's idea of a date." Their best man was Foster Furcolo, an old friend of O'Brien's and a political comer...
After the war, Larry O'Brien returned to Springfield to manage the O'Brien Realty Co.-which had grown to include a gas station and a parking lot in addition to the restaurant-and to get back into politics. In Best Man Foster Furcolo, Organizer O'Brien had a ready candidate. Having come up through the wards, Furcolo was ready for the big time, and O'Brien was eager to handle his campaign for Congress. With his usual attention to detail, he gridded the Second Massachusetts District into 60 units, recruited a corps of "secretaries...
...year, and Furcolo was defeated by a scant 3,295 votes. As soon as the returns were in, O'Brien went methodically to work on the 1948 campaign. And in the second Furcolo race, O'Brien brought in a winner, with a 15,000 plurality. In gratitude, Foster Furcolo asked O'Brien to come to Washington as his administrative assistant. Two years later, the two friends came to a mysterious and bitter parting of the ways (neither man will reveal the reason), and Larry O'Brien came back to Springfield vowing that he had quit politics...
...apartment. "I didn't want to make the library modern," says Eunice Shriver, "because I think a library should have the charm of an old room." Cork floors have been laid in the downstairs hall and the dining room so that the three Shriver children and one foster child can haul their toys around and run their electric trains with out damaging the flooring. Explains Eunice Shriver: "You don't ordinarily use your dining room for this sort of thing, but you have to make use of all your space in an apartment...