Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judging the disaster, the U.S. had to face truths as bitter as they were plain. No one could deny the U.S. diplomats in China had faced fiercely stubborn problems, equally stubborn men. The Chiang regime (like the Greek government, which the U.S. also supported) suffered at one time or another from many of the worst vices known to governments: corruption and disunity, incompetence and indecision. Yet in a world racked by the evil and destruction of first fascist, then Communist aggression, the American job was to work with the world it found and know what world it wanted. In China...
Ever since Harry Truman became President, Washington politicos had been trying to case a brassy little man named John Maragon. He had a trick of materializing at presidential functions like a bat skimming out of the draperies, and some of his fascinated public guessed he spent the time in between hanging upside down in the Capitol dome. But nobody could quite make out who he was or what...
Trying to assay him from his past was like trying to peep through a Venetian blind. John Maragon had come to Washington by a circuitous route. He was an immigrant boy from the Greek island of Levkas, had begun life in the U.S. as a brush-flipper and rag-flapper in a Kansas City shoeshine parlor operated by one George Giokaris. He left Kansas City in 1916. In the early 19205 he got a job with the FBI-then a serio-comic collection of political apple polishers commanded by that hoary old Private Eye, William J. Burns...
Innocent Abroad. None of this seemed like proper preparation for life among the great, but when Harry Truman went to the White House, John Maragon hopped right in behind him. He was, it developed, a particular friend of the President's military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan. According to his own appraisal, he was also a great friend of the President, even had a White House pass (since revoked...
...Chicago, Mrs. Neola Kleidon, granted a divorce after she complained that her husband Charles did not like boogie-woogie, waived alimony payments but won custody of the family phonograph and record collection...