Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spring of 1942, Radcliffe invited many public figures, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Joseph Kennedy, to speak about...
...summer after our first year, several dozenundergraduates went off to Mississippi to registerBlack voters; one was arrested and briefly jailedon a capital offense. Classmates threw themselvesinto new PBH projects at Roosevelt towers andLyman School for Boys. In the wake of the Wattsriots, more than 500 students signed up for EdwardBanfield's course on urban politics...
...What about Harry Truman's comment after he took over as President when Roosevelt died, "I felt like the sun and the moon and the stars had all fallen on my shoulders"? As you are about to embark on this almost certain race for the White House, don't you worry at some times whether you too are worthy of bearing that weight...
...Kermit Roosevelt III '93, a philosophy concentrator in Winthrop; Phillip M. Cheng '93, a biochemical sciences concentrator in Cabot; Sean M. Williford '93, a linguistics concentrator in Mather; Sohrab Ismail-Beigi '93, a physics concentrator in Quincy; Stephen L. Burt '93, an English and American literature and language concentrator in Adams; and Stephen M. Cox, a history major in Cabot, were also selected on the basis of grade point average, recommendations and overall coursework...
...before. In another election cycle, the Governor might have profited from his reputation as a master politician who has shown a rare ability in Arkansas to convince often clashing interests that he is on their side. Clinton's defenders like to point out that the now sainted Franklin D. Roosevelt was often regarded in his day as a crafty politician promising something for everybody. But 1992 is the worst possible year to be called "Slick Willie" -- the nickname invented by opponents of Clinton in Arkansas that he detests but has never been able to shake...