Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...families of America headed home after the closing hymn, they looked like the people of many another congregation across the land-people with steady faith in themselves and the world in which God had placed them...
...blue-green Atlantic waters, sometimes dropped in to chat with reporters on a companionable first-name basis. It was during one such informal visit-at a party for White House Secretary Matt Connelly-that one newsman casually observed that General Dwight D. Eisenhower seemed to be acting oddly like a presidential candidate. As casually, Harry Truman amiably agreed...
Ordinarily the incident might have been forgotten, but to correspondents becalmed at Key West, it seemed like a ruffling little breeze of news. Next day the nation's press (attributing its information to unnamed presidential "intimates" ) breathlessly reported that Harry Truman had spotted Ike as the Republican to beat in 1952. Considering Ike's series of anti-Fair Deal speeches (TIME, Dec. 12-19), the assumption did not seem too farfetched...
...course Spokesman Ross was sidestepping the issue, as his press conference well knew. Whether newsmen qualified as "intimates" or not, Harry Truman had obviously gotten the same impression as many another politico: as long as Ike looked like a candidate, talked like a candidate and acted like a candidate he might as well be tagged...
...Jessup was sticking to his decision to leave Government service next March. His notice followed by a week the resignation of Policy Planner George ("Mr. X") Kennan, who will leave in June after spending the most of the next six months reviewing U.S. policy in Latin America and Africa. Like Kennan, Jessup yearned for the quiet of academic life. He reckoned he was just about eleven months behind schedule in returning to the Hamilton Fish Chair of International Law and Diplomacy at Columbia where, a scholarly friend explained, he had some "grinding" thinking...