Word: mahon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...feeling of helplessness came from trying to put an exact price tag on what it would cost to meet the unknown. Texas' shy, scholarly George Mahon, chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee, made the point: "If war comes too soon we are appropriating too little. If we have miscalculated the dangers, if the threat of war is just a deceptive mirage on the horizon, we are appropriating too much...
...Mahon could only hope that his final figure sensibly measured the distance between the two extremes. He and his committee had talked it over for eleven weeks with the nation's top military people: the past & present Secretaries of Defense, the three Secretaries and their chiefs of staff. The military agreed that if war immediately threatened, the bill should be at least $50 billion, not $15 billion. Said Mahon: "These men did not predict an early outbreak of war, but they agreed that some unpredictable development might throw us suddenly into conflict . . . This, however, was not anticipated . . . No military...
...inventing wonderful tales about himself. This gains for him the prestige he craves, ("I should have been a knight in shining armor"), but he soon finds it difficult to remember when he is lying and when he is not. He is a Walter Mitty of action; a Christy Mahon without honor...
JOHN MONTGOMERY MAHON Harrisburg...
Although the Keeper of the Privy Purse had pruned Mahon's verse-a member of the Royal Family must not be named in anything that can be exploited commercially-it was still a comely tribute to Lilibet. Sample...