Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...call the Dulles family the Kennedys of the Eisenhower years: the rectilinear and Protestant Dulles tribe did not throw each other into swimming pools. But the Dulles family had something of the same proprietary interest in the world and the power that runs it. From the State Department, John Foster Dulles presided over the cold war and the nation's other dealings with the rest of the planet. His sister Eleanor was in charge of the State Department's crucial Berlin desk. Allen Dulles, head of the Central Intelligence Agency, controlled a shadow kingdom that raised private armies...
...Dulleses are remembered somewhat grimly: the stern Foster in steel-rimmed glasses, cocking his chin against the Communist threat; Allen, urbane but swallowed by the anonymity of his institution; and Eleanor, out of sight altogether. Biographer Leonard Mosley shows them to be a brood who, for all their Republican orthodoxy, were capable of great spirit and flashes of color...
...grandfather, John Watson Foster, was Secretary of State under Benjamin Harrison. An uncle, Robert M. Lansing, became Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State. The children, whose father was a Presbyterian minister in upstate New York, enjoyed a vaguely Kennedyesque upbringing that taught them sailing on Lake Ontario, the endurance of cold morning showers and furiously intense sibling competition. Foster, the eldest of the five children, was the foremost of the group, grave and sententious; he quoted William James at the age of ten. Allen, four years younger, was Byronically romantic and found a place for his temperament in intelligence...
...best match of the contest took place with number one Julia Moore vanquishing Susan Foster in four games. Foster managed to scrape by in the second game 15-11, but otherwise Moore's march to victory seemed inevitable...
Moses said later that Moore's "long stride and anticipation plus her very strong arms and legs enable her to cover the court while seeming deceptively slow, and to hit the ball hard whenever she hits it, no matter how stretched out she is." Foster was outclassed...