Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In time, Marines learned to look up to Krulak, whose persnickety preciseness had won him the mocking sobriquet of "The Brute" from Naval Academy classmates. Marines found the nickname appropriate. Merciless with incompetents, Krulak attracted feral loyalty as well as hatred. Early in his career he showed that there was...
Instead of being condemned to an imbecile's life in an asylum, Helen Keller learned to read and hear with her fingers, and by touching others' throats and lips, she was eventually able to verbalize the words she visualized in her mind. At eleven, she was raising money...
King learned of the decision one morning while he was shaving. A letter arrived asking him to resign. "I said certainly not," he recalled on TV as he discussed the episode. "If I do, it will look as if I was caught with my hand in the till." Expecting his...
The list goes on-60, all told. And all of them gathered last week on the grass at Universal City Studios for the 18th annual Patsy Awards. The name Patsy in no way refers to long-suffering audiences who have learned to take Oscars, Obies, Tonys, Emmys, Grammys and Clios...
Tom Wicker, chief of the New York Times's Washington bureau, suggests that the answer is a fatal euphoria. What Kennedy overlooked was the fact that Congress had no intention of carrying out his campaign promises unless forced to by public pressure. To be sure, Kennedy soon won a...