Word: mentored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only peripheral foreign policy experience, most notably in advising President Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. Nonetheless, he is brilliant, energetic and, as he proved in his negotiations with Congress over civil rights legislation, a sound diplomat. Named Acting Attorney General by Johnson after close friend and mentor Bobby Kennedy resigned to run for the Senate, it was five uncomfortable months before he was formally given the top job, but Katzenbach passed L.BJ.'s private loyalty test with honors by assuring the boss that he would serve in any capacity the President requested. His switch from...
Both coaches expressed satisfaction at their club's initial outing, and as Friar mentor Tom Hardin commented, "If they'd had Stempson and Baker, it would probably have been decided by one point, like last year's race...
...Gaulle paper; his cousin Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, general director of L'Express, an anti-De Gaulle magazine; Pierre Gallois, retired air force general and chief exponent of France's independent nuclear striking force; and Jacques Rueff, gold-standard devotee and De Gaulle's economic mentor. Repeat...
Unlike the exuberant, often excessive Italian baroque artists around him, Poussin stripped his paintings down to cool, hard, brightly colored figures gesturing like stagecraft as he recounted his fables. The narrative content of his art instantly made him a mentor for dull academic followers who found cartooning easier than esthetics. But he alone knew how to manifest the inward emotions of his mythical people in outward physical postures. While Narcissus, for example, gazes in the rapturous vanity of youth at his own reflection in a pool, his forgotten lover Echo, is depicted in ashen tones and fuzzy contours...
...Serious Wrongdoing." Dodd's chief accuser was not an ethics-committee member or political enemy but a former aide of twelve years' standing, James P. Boyd Jr., 37, who said he found it "painful" to turn on his mentor. How ever, Boyd testified, he and three other disaffected members of Dodd's staff-the Senator's secretary, Marjorie Carpenter; his office manager-bookkeeper, Michael O'Hare; and an office worker, Terry Golden - came to believe that Dodd was guilty of "serious wrongdoing" and felt "a definite obligation to inform the public and the authorities...