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Word: highhold (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become first Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State, then-at 72-Franklin Roosevelt's gruff, wise and trusted wartime Secretary of War. Only last week did the long voyage come to an end. At 83, Elder Statesman Henry Stimson died of a heart attack at Highhold, his rolling, 123-acre estate on Long Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Short Adventure | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...78th birthday, the old man walked stiffly through a gauntlet of saluting generals at the Washington airport, to wind up his long, long adventure. At Highhold he and his wife relaxed into country life, his impatient cantankerousness mellowed into a kind of gentleness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Short Adventure | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

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