Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years-for eleven years, from 1922 to 1933, he stayed a lieutenant-he built up a steady professionalism that led him to his first command, the destroyer Hopkins. "I made a beauty out of the Hopkins," he said. "I brought her up in appearance and gunnery. A friend of mine, the first lieutenant of the Langley [the Navy's first aircraft carrier], helped...
Careful to keep his in-between position clear to one and all ("Nasser is a friend of mine"), the Prime Minister laid down at the National Press Club one tough-minded neutral's way out of the Mideast impasse: "1) the substitution of a United Nations force for the American troops now in Lebanon, 2) the holding of free elections under U.N. supervision, and 3) the subsequent establishment of Lebanon as a free and independent state with the status of neutrality internationally guaranteed on the analogy of Austria...
...Vengeance is mine . . . saith the Lord") is almost cruelly pressed home. But most of what leads up to the point seems tedious digression, and Cowboy Peck gives the impression that he felt more comfortable in that grey flannel suit (TIME, April 23, 1956) than in ranch pants...
...They say--with some salt to be sure--that I pinched Beatrice and Dante merely followed her flight to comfort. I am the Muse, the Artist, or if you will, the Human Venture. You may think my costume outlandish and my demeanor strange; but that is your fault, not mine. I have endured...
...education, because today one does not fight with spears: one fights with knowledge." At first his parents thought he must have been devoured by lions. Only months later did they learn that he had walked barefoot 1,000 miles to Johannesburg, where he got a job in a gold mine. While studying at night, he somehow managed to scrape together enough money to get to the U.S., where he lived for twelve years. He worked his way through college, earned an M.D., and then, being a devout member of the Scottish kirk, went on to the University of Edinburgh...