Word: himselfe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Massachusetts' youthful Jack Kennedy, still the fustest-and fastest-running Democrat, busied himself flushing delegates' votes in the canebrakes of Louisiana, went north to work his way through Wisconsin and Illinois, and headed toward heavy speaking dates in California two weeks hence. Missouri's Stuart Symington was...
Mental Wrestling. As Governor Rockefeller explained it to newsmen last week in Albany, he had devoted himself "with tremendous intensity" to establishing his nine-month-old administration, and it was "running very smoothly." He was at last able to accept a few of the 3,300 speaking bids he had...
As Kurita's powerful fleet steamed through Palawan Passage toward the Sibuyan Sea early on the morning of Oct. 23, it was flushed by patrolling U.S. submarines Darter and Dace. The subs attacked. Before they were through, they had crippled heavy cruiser Takao, sunk heavy cruiser Maya and Kurita...
But there was a real Japanese plus in the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea: Halsey mistook Kurita's original reversal of course for genuine retirement, believed the overenthusiastic damage reports of his carrier pilots, and decided Kurita was out of the fighting. Meanwhile, Halsey had discovered the approach from...
Upperclassmen hazed him mercilessly, once forced him to stoop over the point of an upended bayonet until, after 20 minutes of agony, he toppled and gashed himself (but he never named his tormentors). By 1901, when he graduated 15th in his class, George Catlett Marshall, son of a well-off...