Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity B squash team gained a 3-1 victory over the Lincoln's Inn Society yesterday, while the Harvard Club Whites beat the freshman B squash team...
...Washington, State Department Spokesman Lincoln White declared Laos had embarked on "a perilous course." But another veteran U.S. diplomat added: "Don't write Laos off to the Communists yet. There'll be time enough to do that when it happens. After all, this is not the first time in history that a country has admitted Communists to its government and still survived...
...could ever have told it from his appearance in Oklahoma City last week for the second of his television series on national issues. From the moment of his arrival, he threw off the old popularity sparks. Riding in from Will Rogers Field in the presidential Lincoln, he stood like a campaigner with hands aloft before sign-carrying crowds ("We Liked Ike in '56. We Like Him Today"). That night at the Municipal Auditorium, he brought down the rafters with his retort to Khrushchev's threat that Russia would "bury" the West. Snapped Ike: "Oh yeah...
...John's. The man who bosses today's jet and missile Air Force was born in Walker, Minn, in 1901-just two years before the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk. His maternal great-grandfather was Charles Dresser, the Episcopal minister who performed the marriage of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd. His father, John Chanler White, an Episcopal minister of Springfield, Ill. and later a bishop, encouraged Tommy to go to church once weekly, to join the Boy Scouts. Tommy's earliest interest was catching snakes at his family's summer cottage at Lake...
...Alamos in 1944-45. He flew in a B-29 half a mile behind the plane that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, later lined up against J. Robert Oppenheimer's refusal to speed development of the hydrogen bomb. Light-haired, blue-eyed, easygoing, he sports a yellow Lincoln convertible, shoots mid-80s golf (he sent President Eisenhower an electronic golf trainer that he had invented), once told his father: "I probably would be a better physicist if I turned longhair and stayed in the laboratory on Saturday nights and Sundays. But I prefer...