Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Adams that "the cloven foot is in plain sight." Jefferson was berated as a mean-spirited hypocrite, Jackson as a murderer and adulterer, Lincoln as a baboon. With rare elegance, Teddy Roosevelt called Woodrow Wilson "a Byzantine logothete* backed by flubdubs and mollycoddles. " When the Depression laid Herbert Hoover low, newspapers were called "Hoover blankets," and a "Hoover flag" was an empty pocket turned inside...
Boon for the Buzzards. That, too, is highly unlikely. After 56 years in the Army and a quarter of a century as head of the draft, Hershey is-like FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover-a Washington monument...
...Lyman Wilbur, who was Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Interior and headed a similar presidential commission on health costs...
...board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting this month, sees news, sports and, at times, movies and specials. Physicist William Pickering, whose Jet Propulsion Laboratory has directed U.S. unmanned space probes from Explorer 1 to Surveyor 6, likes a preposterous piece of space fiction, Star Trek. J. Edgar Hoover is strictly business: No. 1 on his most wanted list is The F.B.I...
Returning to Harvard after a brief service in the diplomatic corps, he taught history until his death in 1928. During the war years, he went on official missions to Archangel and Vienna, served with the Peace Conference at Versailles, and with the Hoover famine-relief expedition in Russia...