Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...became friendly with Nixon in 1946, when he first ran for the House against Jerry Voorhis. Since then, Klein's journalistic career has been interrupted no fewer than five times by the leaves he has taken to work as a Nixon campaign aide. Between the various campaigns, he rose over the years to become editor of the Copley chain's resolutely Republican San Diego Union (circ...
Finally the President rose. "I'm like the small boy who didn't get an invite to the party and just wrote his own and came anyway," he told the hostess. On his way out, he paused and mentioned to no one in particular that he was staying at the Pierre, where President-elect Nixon has established his Manhattan headquarters. "Nixon has very good judgment about hotels," he mused. "I hope he has as good judgment about running the country. Because he's the pilot now, and we're all on the same plane...
...Finley Peter Dunne's fictional humorist, the Irish bartender Mr. Dooley, imagined the scene when President Theodore Roosevelt first read The Jungle: "Tiddy was toying with a light breakfast an' idly turnin' over th' pages iv th' new book with both hands. Suddenly he rose fr'm th' table, an' cryin': 'I'm pizened,' begun throwin' sausages out iv th' window." Author Sinclair lunched at the White House with T.R., though presumably not on sausages. The President later wrote Sinclair's publisher: "Tell Sinclair...
...came up with a proposal to put a bell around the cat's neck, providing the mice with an early warning system. But with their tunnel vision, none of the assembled specialists thought to ask the most crucial question until a grey old mouse-a generalist, no doubt-rose. Who, he asked quietly, would put the bell around the cat's neck...
...income is about $40, there is no significant industry, and there are no important mineral deposits. About 95% of the 4,700,000 Malians are subsistence farmers. Mali's exports (mostly cattle and cotton) are minuscule. Trade deficits have been running at an average $20 million annually, and rose to $38 million in 1966. Keita's struggle to impose a socialist economy met with a singular lack of success. Coupled with these problems had been Keita's steady movement toward political absolutism, culminating in the creation in 1967 of the "Committee for the Defense of the Revolution...