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Word: moyer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moyer's secretary is Nancy Gore, the 23-year-old daughter of Sen. Albert Gore (D.-Tenn.), a co-sponsor of the bill. Her words are familiar even though she has a Southern accent, to regular readers of President Kennedy's prose. Yet they retained their impact. "Amricans respond in difficult times by doing the impossible. If Communism had never been born there would still be the basic problems in the world that the Peace Corps is trying to comba. There is a greater war going on, and if this doesn't help I don't know what will...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, SPECIAL TO THE SUMMER NEWS | Title: A Tour Through the Peace Corps | 8/10/1961 | See Source »

...long face, but it was not weeping. It was not worried about any downturn in the economy; instead it was suffering from frustrated optimism. The Street and investors throughout the nation seemed to have forgotten that the decade's growth would not be evident immediately. Said A. Moyer Kulp, vice president of the Wellington Fund, second biggest U.S. mutual fund: "The market has been too impatient. Men's minds just got things soaring too soon." Seldom in Wall Street's history had the turnabout from giddy optimism to pessimism been so abrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Frustrated Optimism | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

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