Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these critical times . . . isn't it absurd that our Senators have time to call each other "blind, stupid...
Said a Kansas City Democratic boss ("Don't quote me by name"): "It's not what the Marines themselves think. The people in general are going to think that any guy who is so stupid as to pop off like that isn't fit to be President." Most Democrats, however, decided that the incident merely demonstrated again that Harry Truman was "just human," and courageous enough to admit his mistakes. No politician was ever hurt by being human, was he? Out in Chicago, Cook County Boss Jacob Arvey said confidently: "Walking before that convention showed...
When a man knows he has a good chance to be A-bombed, nothing can stop him from wondering whether there isn't something he can do to prevent it. That is why talk of "preventive war" by the U.S. against the U.S.S.R. stays on the tongues of the American people, even after President Truman has effectively, and prudently, muffled official discussion of this and kindred subjects...
...expects to gross more than $10 million, and net more than its 1948 peak of $632,000. President Savard is convinced that the American woman is now sold on sensible foundation garments, fights shy of fads that try to squeeze her in or make her figure what it isn't. What she wants, said Savard, is "freedom with control...
...State Department for its blunders, quickly passed another which took dead aim on Johnson's Department of Defense. One Republican advance man, returning from a tour through the Middle West, reported: "Acheson is catching most of the hell here in Washington, but don't think Johnson isn't getting it out in the states. He's just as hot as Acheson and either is enough to sink a Democrat right...