Word: polk
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...others: John Quincy Adams, James Polk, Zachary Taylor, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln (in 1860), Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland (both terms), Benjamin Harrison, Woodrow Wilson (in 1912 and 1916) and Harry Truman...
...human mind, the weakness of human understanding and recollection." And intelligent, articulate diarists are the very worst kind: they couple their love of the language with their imagination and usually produce "a fusion of fact and fancy." To illustrate his point, Frankfurter drew a bead on James K. Polk, a President who was neither articulate nor imaginative but rather, in Frankfurter's view, a "bookkeeper" and "a dull man." Said Frankfurter: "He wrote a reliable diary...
...Washington, Monroe, Jackson, Polk, Buchanan, Johnson, Garfield, McKinley, Taft, Harding, both Roosevelts and Truman were...
...industry's official statistician, R. L. Polk & Co., last week totted up the final figures for calendar 1959. Total new car registrations: 6,026,500 cars, for the third best year on record, topped only by 1955 (7,169,908) and 1950 (6,326,438). The top five...