Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accumulated old copies of the magazine, scouring libraries that were throwing out back issues once they had transferred them to microfilm. He wrote letters, even sometimes sent the cover subject a gift as an enticement to sign. Among those who took the bait: Pablo Picasso, Joseph R. McCarthy, Herbert Hoover, Charles de Gaulle, Chiang Kai-shek, Andy Warhol, Charlie Chaplin, Clark Gable, Albert Einstein, Joe DiMaggio, Hopalong Cassidy (actor William Boyd) and all four Marx Brothers...
Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds are now housing projects. The Deliverance Evangelistic Church sits on the site of what was once Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium. The Herbert Hoover Boys Club is where Sportsman's Park used to be in St. Louis, Missouri. Crosley Field was swallowed up by I-75 in Cincinnati, Ohio. The spot on which Bill Mazeroski stood in 1960 when he hit his dramatic World Series home run in Forbes Field is actually in a ladies' room on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. They paved paradise, the old Comiskey Park in Chicago...
...Diana. With her moody personality and mysterious connections, she undermines Fuentes' confidence in the only two things he ever found salvation in: his ability to write and to love. However, her inward vulnerability, romanticism, and rebellious nature eventually catch up to her; she becomes one of J. Edgar Hoover's "reliable enemies". The goddess is crushed by the onslaught of the FBI and the American media and Fuentes is left to reconstruct the ideals of his literary career and his perceptions of love...
...After the last two decades of the fantastic growth of corruption...people just feel you might as well get on the gravy train," said Larry Diamond, a Nigerian specialist and senior research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institute...
History professor William Leuchtenburg of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests that the 20th century Presidents with perhaps the highest IQs--Wilson, Hoover and Carter--also had the most trouble connecting with their constituents. Woodrow Wilson, he says, "was very high strung [and] arrogant; he was not willing to strike any middle ground. Herbert Hoover was so locked into certain ideas that you could never convince him otherwise. Jimmy Carter is probably the most puzzling of the three. He didn't have a deficiency of temperament; in fact, he was too temperate. There was an excessive rationalization...