Word: innermost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shakers who persuaded Roosevelt to dump Henry Wallace as Vice President and put Missouri's Senator Harry Truman on the ticket. During the campaign, Allen worked closely with Truman, added many a deft touch to his campaign speeches, and by inauguration day, he was a member of the innermost Truman Circle. When Truman became President, he rewarded Allen with a job as director of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., but after a year Allen quit. He realized that his best political function was in an offstage capacity, and besides, he had growing private business interests of his own (today...
...Julius Marmur, the other by Dr. Paul M. Doty, published reports titled: "Strand Separation and Specific Recombination in Deoxyribonucleic Acids." Behind that formidable title was the kind of excitement that makes scientists glad they are scientists: in their studies of DNA, Marmur and Doty had probed close to the innermost secrets of life...
...Ceylon, no relic is considered holier or more miraculous than the supposed tooth of Lord Buddha encased in the innermost of seven gold caskets in the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy. The pious believe that this tooth was brought to Ceylon by a 4th century princess of Kalinga, who fled with it hidden in her hair when Buddhism was driven out of India...