Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Johnson took note of this unease. "There is among our people a deep discontent," he told a group of educators in the White House Rose Garden. "It is not the discontent of a single segment-or a single section. It reaches through the whole of our society. The most prosperous, the best housed, the best fed, the best read, the most intelligent and the most secure generation in our history-or all history -is discontent. Why?" Perhaps, mused the President, it is because "we have not put our capacities to work. Our cities show it. Our schools show...
...nighttime university courses at the Providence Y.M.C.A., he climbed steadily through a clutch of state-government jobs, from assembly member to Governor in 1945. In 1950 he was elected the first U.S. Senator of Italian parentage. In the Senate he was absorbed quickly into the leadership circle and rose to head the important Joint Committee on Atomic Energy...
...Dinh Diem. But Diem's infant state ,was soon crippled. Though the Red guerrillas who had been fighting the French in the south were supposed to be repatriated to the north, many of them stayed in the south, disguising themselves as peasants and caching weapons. In 1957 they rose up against the government...
Never the LIke Again. Last week he and his House of Commons bade each other final farewell. Leaning heavily on his two backbench volunteer escorts, Churchill-now 89 and too feeble to stand for re-election-rose painfully from his front-row corner seat, tottered up the aisle, turned slowly to make the usual bow of recognition to the Speaker...
...thorn, but cousin to your rose...