Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American he admires most, George C. Marshall, at a dinner on the second anniversary of the Harvard speech which launched the Marshall Plan. Marshall would be remembered more as a great peacemaker than as a great soldier, Truman predicted."I believe that in the years to come we shall look back on this undertaking [the Marshall Plan] as the dividing line . . . between the old era of national suspicion, economic hostility and isolationism, and the new era of mutual cooperation to increase prosperity throughout the world." ¶Appointed Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark, 49, Democratic National Committeewoman from Kansas, as Treasurer...
Harry Truman could look out over the formal rose gardens, edged with boxwood. And as he walked back to Blair House at day's end, he could also see, glowing pink and salmon under the ancient elms, the round beds of impatiens, which people also know as the patience plant...
...year stewardship of the Atomic Energy Commission had all the familiar trappings of a congressional hazing. But the act was getting out of hand. Baking in the floodlights that shone for the spider-legged newsreel and television cameras, Iowa's schoolmasterish Senator Bourke Hickenlooper suddenly began to look more like the defendant than the prosecutor...
...member of this nefarious, filthy conspiracy for twelve long years." Midway in his diatribe he veered to throw in a shocker. Discussing the secret documents which the State would present, Lloyd Stryker cried in triumph: "We have the typewriter! We'll let these FBIs come over and look at it all they like...
Marshals representing other Harvard classes will include publisher Gardner Cowles '24 of Look Magazine; Counselor Charles E. Bohlen '27 of the State Department; Congressman John F. Kennedy '40; Headmaster William G. Saltonstall '28 of Exeter Academy; author Cleveland Amory '39; Columnist Joseph W. Alsop '32, and Managing Editor Victor O. Jones '28 of the Boston Globe...