Word: mckinleyism
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Though Ohio has many memorials to William McKinley, Regula says the purchase of the 25th President's wife's parents' home is justified because the house McKinley was born in has been destroyed. After all, he did reside there for a few years, and maintaining it will not cost the government a penny because the house will be turned over to private groups that will finish restoring it. Regula says it is merely a coincidence that he graduated from a law school named after -- you guessed it -- William McKinley...
...killers inspiring one another in a grand conspiracy. This mildly provocative notion is made silly by being rendered literal: the opening features a carnival shooting gallery and then a kind of time-warp barroom where John Wilkes Booth meets John W. Hinckley Jr., where Leon Czolgosz, killer of William McKinley, encounters Giuseppe Zangara, attempted murderer of Franklin Roosevelt. In the climax, Booth and the others show up in Dallas to persuade Lee Harvey Oswald to shoot John F. Kennedy instead of killing himself...
...William Seale wondered if this was not the first time that the city had been caught up in the drama of a "scheduled war" since 1898. Back then, debate swirled for weeks as Washington matrons in their taffeta ruffles watched from the congressional galleries, and finally the weary William McKinley gave in to the fevered Congress and the U.S. went to war with Spain...
...October 1989 scores were not on the high side nationally," said Deputy Vice President for Test Development Robert L. McKinley...
Rakoff said she has already contacted LSAS to make sure there were no problems with the test scoring, and to see how Harvard's scores compared to others. McKinley said LSAS did score the tests correctly, but that "we haven't looked at the distribution of scores for individual institutions...