Word: paule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PAUL K. GASTON
Into this area, where others have been too bored to tread, the high-powered committee stepped with courage and imagination. The members-onetime Deputy Defense Secretary William C. Foster; onetime State Department director of policy planning Paul H. Nitze; Williams College President James Phinney Baxter III; onetime Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett; and Sprague Electric Co. Board Chairman Robert C. Sprague-admitted the probability of substantial enemy success in a missile attack. Said one committeeman: "That leaves the question of what to do against this thing called fallout. Maybe in six months some bright guy will invent a pill...
...ready to back up his razor-edged wit and deadly personal insult with well-worn fists; of cancer; in Jackson, Miss. Though he was a lifelong foe of Negro-baiters ("hysterical rabble-rousers and spouting demagogues"), and scathingly attacked the late Senator Theodore Bilbo, Representative John Rankin and Governor Paul Johnson, Sullens was himself a confirmed opponent of desegregation, waged a bitter campaign against the 1954 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court...
...Poet Paul Verlaine was the youngest of four children-the three others, stillborn, were kept pickled in bottles by their doting mother. This might have dispirited Paul; instead, he grew to manhood with a sunny nature and an easy-breezy charm. Far from being rebellious, he always obeyed instantly-particularly when ordered by his instincts. At about 16 he discovered brothels, and thought them so sensible and wonderful that he never wearied of visiting them. Soon afterwards he discovered alcohol, took to it with the same enthusiasm. By the time he settled into his job as a Paris civil servant...
...child Shakespeare" insulted every poet he met, interrupted their readings-aloud with sharp cries of "Merde!" One day he denounced a critic as an "excreter of ink." The critic took prompt revenge by noting that, at a subsequent first night, among those present was "the saturnine poet Paul Verlaine who gave his arm to a charming young person named Miss Rimbaud...