Word: gores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover." Dr. Manuel Antonio de Varona, a member of the Cuban Revolutionary Council, insisted that the U.S. had indeed assured the invaders of "full air control," though another invasion leader, Manuel Artime, declared that no U.S. air support had been promised. Adding to the confusion, Publisher Jack W. Gore of the Fort Lauderdale News said that in May 1961 the President himself had told a group of seven Florida newspaper executives, gathered for a confidential White House briefing, that planned air cover had been canceled by presidential order on the morning of the invasion. At his press conference, President Kennedy...
...entertainers ate in the upstairs dining room with Jack and Jackie Kennedy, Lee Radziwill, British Ambassador David Ormsby-Gore and his wife. Then they were joined by a passel of Kennedy relatives and the Kirk Douglases. Cinemactor Douglas, like Carol and Burns, had entertained at the Democratic gala. Carol and George did a few comedy routines, Douglas presented a song that he sang when auditioning for a Broadway show 20 years ago (he failed to get the part), and most of the Irish present joined in for a chorus of The Wearing of the Green...
Patriotic Gore, by Edmund Wilson. A vast, masterful exploration of Civil War writing and what it meant...
Similar sentiments issued from several of Byrd's fellow Senators-Kentucky Republican Thruston B. Morton, Kansas Republican Frank Carlson, and even Tennessee's liberal Democrat Albert Gore, who pronounced himself in favor of tax cuts only "if we could reduce Government spending and pay something on the national debt...
...Kerr has an Angus herd of 7,000, including 450 bulls. Gore has no cattle, two bulls...