Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stations and assignments followed, and in 1933, Eisenhower, always a good staff man, found himself working in Washington for Douglas MacArthur, Army Chief of Staff. Two years later, he followed MacArthur to the Philippines to help prepare the islands' defenses. Worlds apart in temperament, the egocentric MacArthur and the self-effacing staff officer nevertheless grew to respect, if not like, each other. His celebrated commander had one habit that, Eisenhower confessed, "never ceased to startle me. In reminiscing or in telling stories of the current scene, he talked of himself in the third person. 'So MacArthur went over...
...role as statesman-soldier, Ike was not hurt by his famous modesty. Somehow, in his slow, frustrating progression as a peacetime Army officer, he had gained such self-confidence that he could let subordinates win glory and medals, taking to himself the satisfaction of achievement. "Your job," Eisenhower told S.L.A. Marshall, the European theater's chief historian in 1945, "is to determine the truth, and I will settle for that. You are not here to protect my reputation." Well aware of his worth, he was not falsely humble, but the bravura of a MacArthur, a Patton or a Montgomery distressed...
...Court finally outlawed school segregation. Though Ike did not help to implement the decision, he did act when he had to, sending troops into Little Rock, Ark., in 1957 to enforce a court-ordered desegregation decree. In October 1957, Russia's success with Sputnik I cast a pall of self-doubt over the entire country?a mood that was ultimately to spur popular support for federal programs to aid education and science. There was a sense of drift, a feeling that Eisenhower was by then more figurehead than President. In November 1957, Ike, for the third time in less than...
...proposed deployment was not deemed threatening enough by the Russians to stall the arms talks in the first place. When Committee Chairman William Fulbright raised the question a second time, Rogers admitted that the ABM might, after all, prove "useful" in bargaining. Fulbright was not about to let the self-contradiction pass unnoticed. "I should not have brought up the question," he said with mock seriousness. "You've just destroyed what little confidence...
...buttressed the diagnoses of five other experts that Sirhan was afflicted with paranoia and schizophrenia. Diamond reconnoitered the darkening recesses of the assassin's mind. One key to the killing, Diamond insisted, must be found in Sirhan's arcane experiments with the mirror. It was during his self-induced trances, Diamond said, that Sirhan scribbled over and over that "Kennedy must...