Word: hooverness
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...approximately 15 seconds of battle footage was obtained by CBS news from freelance cameraman Michael Hoover and broadcast in a story about the Afghan civil war early this summer...
...took Reagan four days after last Monday's historic collapse on Wall Street to speak out in public on the steps he would take to deal with the crisis. While investors and politicians verged on panic and waited to hear from him, Reagan was only able to muster a Hoover-like declaration that the "underlying economy remains sound...
...more than a half-century, Luce was on whispering terms with history, the friend of Winston Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek, the wife of America's most prominent publishing tycoon, the acquaintance of every President from Herbert Hoover to Ronald Reagan. Yet even as she was winning over great men, she was overturning the very notion of the "great man" by storming all the old boys' clubs of power without ever relinquishing her femininity. In the space of 20 years, while presiding as the darling of the society columns, she was managing editor of a national magazine, successful Broadway playwright...
...Edgar Hoover liked his FBI agents to have degrees in law, accounting or both, but it now turns out that the bureau could have used some Ph.D.s in English. Both The New Yorker and The Nation magazines last week documented nearly half a century of FBI surveillance of more than 100 prominent American writers, including six Nobel laureates (Sinclair Lewis, Pearl Buck, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Eugene O'Neill and John Steinbeck). The gumshoe lit crit was sometimes comically inept. FBI files, for example, described the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay as possibly subversive because she used the "analogy...
...anything slowed down Herbert Hoover's Quercus alba, standing a proud 60 ft. In fact, the Hoover white oak has grown rotund, reminding visitors of the fellow who planted it 56 years ago. It makes you wonder if there is some mystic force in Irvin Williams' 18 acres where Nature imitates human nature. Williams has seen just about everything else in his 26 years of coaxing trees, flowers, grass, birds and squirrels to coexist on top of and among security alarms, underground cables and rooms. The battle is constant, but he loves it. There is Grover Cleveland's Acer palmatum...