Word: naming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman, jaunty as ever, took it all in stride. He met with congressional leaders, held his regular weekly Cabinet meeting, by the end of each day had signed his initials or name up to 600 times-on everything from staff memos and postmasters' appointments to a proclamation announcing Freedom...
...Real name: Frank Castiglia...
...Chinese people have borne, driven off or absorbed, many a conqueror-the Huns and Mongols, the Tartars and Manchus. But the conqueror who, in the name of a grandiose world conspiracy, prepared to take over China last week could rival all of these. Mao Tse-tung knew that. Once, while flying over a civil war battlefield on which his men fought blindly for what they thought was the end of misery, Mao had written a poem. Excerpt...
...ringleader was the nine-year-old son of a U.S. officer living down the hall from Van Fleet. He and his fellow desperadoes, high-spirited American youngsters, had already made a name for themselves as "Athens' Dead End Kids." Written with a mother's lipstick, the note had been slipped under the general's door while the gang was at play in the corridor. Action recommended: sound spankings. Action taken: as recommended...
When confronted with this explanation of her tribal name, the Medical School's woodchuck cooked an eyebrow and, after a moment of meditation, commented, "Probably apocryphal...