Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brownell was frightened by "the high command of the national Democratic Party" and its attacks on the President's do-nothing attitude. In the high command he identified National Chairman Paul Butler, Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman, New York's Governor Averell Harriman and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams. "Goaded" by these Democrats, he said, "the President and Mr. Brownell had to take drastic action in order to hold the voters of these minority groups." Almost to a man, Deep South Democrats leaped to get out of any attitude of compromise...
...gatehouse he lived in, watches the master give a lesson ("Don't think too much, just feel it"), and then settles down in dimness and the shapely silence of a thousand-year-old church to hear the cellist play Bach's Suite No. 1 in G Major for Unaccompanied Cello...
...Adversaries. Tito grows through the book from an awkward villager to a smooth party functionary to a puffed-up dictator wearing the most splendid uniforms since Göring. He alternately appears a shrewd peasant, a cold-eyed killer, a sentimental family man. There is rough humor as well as ruthlessness in him, courage but little real rashness, some pity but no compassion. His friends and enemies were men of great complexity. There was Milovan Djilas, the Montenegrin partisan who seemed determined to infuse some humanity into the Communist machine and today, from jail, is one of its more eloquent...
According to William G. Moulton, professor of German Linguistics, "No English is used, under 'penalty of death'," but it seems that this penalty is frequently commuted during the early stages of the course...
...Eisenhower Republicans has already cost the Republicans some key statehouses, congressional seats and a Wisconsin Senate seat, may inflict even more wounds in the 1958 congressional elections unless the right wing starts fighting Democrats instead of Ike Republicans. Visiting Chicago last week for what Illinois' Governor William G. Stratton had proclaimed as "George Humphrey Day," the ex-Treasury Secretary spoke at a fund-raising banquet in his honor, volunteered a Dutch uncle's advice. Stop complaining about little things, he admonished, and start appreciating big accomplishments...