Word: hoover
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...other side of the door is a photo of J. Edgar Hoover. Staring at it, Mulder and Scully just shrug, but that's unfair to the FBI's snoop extraordinaire, the vicar of voyeurs, the patron saint of the TV show's belief that under every bed, in every closet or out in a pumpkin patch is something very scary that could bring America to its knees. And even if it doesn't, it's worth tracking down, keeping in a locked drawer. Knowledge is power, and belief in the dark side spurs you to gain that knowledge...
Robert Service is professor of Russian history at Oxford University, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of Comrades. Communism: A World History
...European. We don’t just accept the way things are. We always try something new.” He described the U.S. as a “dynamic, sometimes charismatic country,” citing historical examples—such as the transition from Hoover to Roosevelt in 1932 and Carter to Reagan in 1980—as times when the country underwent “great change.” Looking toward this fall’s election, Matthews spoke of the need for the next president to be more curious about the international community...
...look at the docks that have been moved repeatedly, chasing the receding lake. Or you can simply read a line graph at the reservoir's visitor center, which tracks the water elevation of Lake Mead since it was created by the construction of the Hoover Dam in 1935. After years of relative stability, starting in 2000 the graph resembles the record of a stock-market crash. The visitor center's chart stops at 2006, but as a park ranger tells me, "It just keeps going down from there...
...trillion gal. (35 trillion cu L) of water. But the dry sky above and the rock all around reinforce the inescapable fact that this land was a desert, is a desert and always will be a desert. When the American explorer J.C. Ives visited the present location of the Hoover Dam in 1857, he declared the land "worthless," adding, "There is nothing there to do but leave." Today's residents are hoping there's another choice...