Word: greated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decades the evenings in the capital were enriched with stories like the one about Franklin Roosevelt's coaxing Ambassador Joseph Kennedy out of a vacation and then with great relish firing him. F.D.R. was a real gossip, demanding every morning the tantalizing doings of the night before. "I had dinner with [Senator Authur] Capper and he was snapping garters all night," chortled an aide one time. Roosevelt roared, eyes bright. "Is he still doing that? he asked, recalling that the old boy was on the prowl back when Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 20 years earlier...
Their cadence may still not be perfect, but Navy trainees are once again marching to classes and meals at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center...
...Navy has begun upgrading housing, and will send two additional senior officers to Great Lakes so that disciplinary hearings can be conducted swiftly. Petty officers have been assigned to each floor of the barracks to increase security and enforce discipline. Said Senior Chief Petty Officer Thomas Phillips: "The new rules have already changed things. This is finally a military establishment...
Once in Hanoi, the Congressmen were treated with great warmth by Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Nguyen Co Thach, who is pressing for U.S. recognition and an end to Washington's trade embargo against Viet...
Lopez got the idea for the book, he says, when he was watching the Watergate hearings on television. Every time one of the commentators talked about a graduate of Harvard Law, he recalls, Harvard was mentioned. This didn't happen with other colleges, of course. Of such inspiration, great literature is not made. "Would Henry Kissinger have been Secretary of State if he had been from Michigan State University instead of Harvard?" he asks. Unfortunately, Lopez can't seem to answer his own question. When you ask him to define mystique, he hesitates for a moment. Mystique, he says...