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Word: roosevelts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...housing measures threaten opportunities for rising seniors to obtain private bedrooms, committee leaders Paul Henrys '91, Eric Columbus '93 and Kermit Roosevelt '93 said. Floorplans for the annex indicate that there are no single bedrooms in the complex, and seniors who are transferred there would have to live in doubles or triples...

Author: By Chris M. Fortunato, | Title: Students Resist Move to DeWolfe | 3/14/1991 | See Source »

...German surrender, George Gallup's polling organization registered an 87% job-approval rating for Harry Truman, the highest Gallup figure for any President on record even today. But researchers acknowledge that Truman himself had little to do with that endorsement, having taken office only two months before, when Franklin Roosevelt died. The unknown Truman rode the crest of relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency Of Force, Fame and Fishing | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

...This mildly provocative notion is made silly by being rendered literal: the opening features a carnival shooting gallery and then a kind of time-warp barroom where John Wilkes Booth meets John W. Hinckley Jr., where Leon Czolgosz, killer of William McKinley, encounters Giuseppe Zangara, attempted murderer of Franklin Roosevelt. In the climax, Booth and the others show up in Dallas to persuade Lee Harvey Oswald to shoot John F. Kennedy instead of killing himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glimpses Of Looniness: ASSASSINS | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...time for protest is never past," says Kim Roosevelt '93. Goldstein, a pro-war student, also acknowledges that protest is "a healthy sign in our society...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: The Gulf War Has Students' Minds Churning | 2/2/1991 | See Source »

...efficient technological weapons, our unflinching resolve to bring the evil dictator Hussein (whom we and our "coalition" have, for the most part, armed) to his knees. And, in this regard, it may be worth quoting from a letter written by Lowell to another very popular American President, Franklin Roosevelt, waging an even more popular and clearly justified war, in September of 1943. In that letter, refusing to accept the "opportunity" of serving in the U.S. Armed Forces (after having twice unsuccessfully volunteered earlier in the War), Lowell wrote...

Author: By Michael Blumenthal, | Title: No One Asked the Poets | 2/1/1991 | See Source »

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