Word: haying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MacArthur added that, in his opinion, "the greatest political mistake we made in a hundred years in the Pacific was in allowing the Communists to grow in power in China. I think, at one stroke, we undid everything, starting from John Hay, through Taft, Leonard Wood, Woodrow Wilson, Henry Stimson, and all those great architects of our Pacific policy. I believe it was fundamental, and I believe we will pay for it, for a century...
...ELECTED HEAD OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THIS COUNTRY, TRUMAN IS DUE MORE RESPECT THAN THE PUBLIC AND THE REPUBLICAN (MY OWN) PARTY IS SHOWING, IF FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN THE FACT THAT HE BEARS THE TITLE OF PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THE CURRENT MAKING OF POLITICAL HAY IN WASHINGTON OVER THE MACARTHUR MATTER IS DEGRADING AMERICAN POLITICS AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TO THE LOWEST LEVEL IN HISTORY...
Many Americans used to suffer from complaints known as hay fever, asthma, or hives, for which they tried all manner of "simples" with scant success. Nowadays, they talk knowingly about their allergies, take scratch and patch tests and complicated treatments, and many enjoy marked relief. But most cannot hope to be cured; they must learn to live with their allergies, and for this they should understand them...
...first place, says Feinberg, the field is a huge one. There are in the U.S., he estimates, about 10 million allergy victims; about 2,000,000 have asthma, up to 7,000,000 have hay fever and the rest an assortment of hives, eczema, sinus disorders, reactions to foods, allergic headaches, contact allergies such as ivy poisoning, serum sickness and sensitivity to drugs...
...long-distance call from Connecticut roused Joe Martin out of a sound sleep in Washington's Hay-Adams House at 1:30 a.m. Said a woman's voice: "I think it's terrible." "What's terrible?" asked the House Republican leader wearily. Then Joe Martin was shocked awake by the news that Douglas MacArthur had been fired...