Word: need
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Director of the Budget in July 1946. There he made many friends, no enemies. When a reporter asked the President what Webb's qualifications were for Under Secretary of State, Harry Truman replied: He is a good man and a good administrator and that is what we need in the position...
...This trip has impressed one thing on my mind ... I need to do more reading, more writing and more thinking if I ever want to fulfill my dream of being someone in this world. Maybe I seem foolish to have such vain hopes and plans, but, Bucky, I can see how some day, if you and I just apply ourselves and make up our minds to work for bigger things, how we can some day live here in Washington, and probably be in Government politics or service. I set my aim at Congress. Don't laugh at me. Maybe...
...charter which made him, like all his predecessors, the Throttlebottom of the city council, he set up mayor's commissions on everything from human relations to smoke abatement. He was a great hand at patching labor troubles. After settling one row, Humphrey proudly explained: "What labor and management need is a catalytic agent. And brother, that's little Hubert...
...beanpole (6 ft. 1½ in.) bachelor with a dry sense of humor, Glazebrook writes on foreign policy with full attention to underlying economic and geographic factors. As JIB's boss, he will have the job of telling the other intelligence arms what they need to know about other countries-their steel production, flying weather, rivers & harbors, and the load limits of their bridges...
Lauritz Melchior, off for some big-game hunting in East Africa, hoped that he could find "a live dragon for Siegfried . . . I've killed him so many times that I need...