Word: laide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will those who passed by the bier or watched the funeral procession on television. The arrangements had been meticulously laid down in 1966, then approved by Ike. The 54-page scenario for the funeral read like a battle plan, covering every detail from the pace of the funeral march (31 miles an hour) to the route and the points at which military bands were to play. After remaining at Washington's National Cathedral for 28 hours, the body was placed on a caisson Sunday afternoon and moved to the Capitol, where it lay in state on the same black-draped...
Still, he embodied something of American greatness in a way that went beyond particular successes or failures. The people acquiesced in his decisions, and on the big issues of war and peace, Eisenhower justified their faith. Though his Administration laid plans for the Bay of Pigs operation, leaving an enormous problem for its successor, it is unlikely that Ike, the meticulous technician, would have allowed the sloppy staff work that resulted in J.F.K.'s Cuban fiasco. And he would probably not have reacted as massively as Lyndon Johnson did in the Dominican Republic. By comparison, the U.S. intervention in Lebanon...
...would still draw nearly 95% of his weekly wage for 31 weeks. A man on the job for seven or more years could get similar benefits for a full year. Under ordinary economic conditions, workers eligible for the longest period of benefits could rarely expect to be laid off. Under Reuther's scheme, older workers could volunteer for what amounts to paid vacations...
...ideas of any sort. From radar to rocketry, we have had to rely on other societies" etc., etc. Sarcasm betrays him into rhetorical flourishes: Lyndon Johnson is "the Great Khan at Washington"; objection to John O'Hara's handling of sex is archly laid to the "Good Gray Geese of the press...
...much hope, and thus against bitterness at hope defeated. "Not all the fruits of Victory are appetising to the palate," an esthete says after V-E day, as Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia are transformed from Nazi-occupied countries into Communist satellites. "An issue of gall and wormwood has been laid...