Word: ments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DISOBEDIENT SON (274 pp.)-François Clément-Little, Brown...
...quota, just as Britain had subscribed $1.3 billion, and now the U.S. simply made the cash available. This way of helping Britain suited Treasury Secretary George Humphrey; he did not have to ask Congress for the money. The U.S. decision to use the fund as the main instru ment for supporting Britain was also in line with President Eisenhower's decision to handle the Middle East crisis through the U.N. In both operations, the U.S. turned to the world organizations instead of tackling the problems unilaterally...
...into the desert to find God than one who flies to Palm Springs to freshen up his tan. According to the script, that was the kind of fellow Moses really was, at least as a young man. There are moments, in fact, when it seems that the Seventh Command ment is the only one DeMille is really interested in; to the point where the Exodus itself seems almost a sort of Sexodus-the result of Moses' unhappy (and purely fictional) love life...
...though he had big businessmen in his Cabinet, Dwight Eisenhower held no special brief for big corporations. To a small businessman in the audience, the President explained the need for ment of antitrust laws in the U.S. "We get the benefits of bigness . . . just as efficiently and as rapidly as we can, but we do not let [the corporations] get so big they dominate the rest of us. Now I am no millionaire and . . . you are not. So we are on the side of trying to keep . . . these boys from bossing...
...referred to himself as "Lafayette," in the manner of Julius Caesar. He once claimed grandiloquently: "I have vanquished the King of England in his might, the King of France in his authority, the people in their fury. I shall not yield to Mirabeaij." Hanged Talker. The biographers docu ment Lafayette wherever history found him - which was at the dead center of the libertarian movement...