Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard Core. To bolster Acheson, the U.S.'s highest brass marched up to Capitol Hill. Army Chief of Staff Omar Bradley, flanked by the Navy's Admiral Denfeld and the Air Force's General Hoyt Vandenberg, spoke for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Said Missouri-born Omar Bradley, whose vivid prose is the match of Acheson's: "We can surely anticipate that any aggressor will alternatively press and quell the crises, hoping to hold the [North Atlantic Treaty] powers in perpetual irresolution. But irresolution has no apology. It is born of fear and selfishness...
...served successfully under six Presidents and twelve Attorneys General (and got a new boss this week-see The Administration), Hoover is above all else an extraordinarily competent and careful bureaucrat who runs his own show and has learned to perfection the art of survival in Government-even though, as a lifelong Washingtonian, he has never voted...
...father was a minor official in the Commerce Department's Coast & Geodetic Survey. His mother, descendant of Switzerland's first consul general to the U.S., was a strong-willed woman with a firm belief in the stern principles of Calvinism and a secure knowledge of what was right and what was wrong...
...Conditions. Such was the demoralized outfit that Assistant Director Hoover took over at 29, when the erupting scandals of Teapot Dome finally blew Daugherty out of office. Hoover told the new Attorney General, Harlan Fiske Stone, that he would take the job on two conditions: no politics and no outside interference. Said Stone: "Those, young man, are the only conditions under which I would give...
...band of farsighted Nutmeggers had plans for that territory. For $1,200,000 they bought title to these 3,000,000-plus acres of Ohio land from the state.* Then, in 1796, they sent a survey party, led by burly, action-loving General Moses Cleaveland, into the wilderness to inspect the prize...