Word: shermans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coast of Northern Spainhelped him find the sense of direction he hadbegun to lose in college, Sherman said...
...What you see--these are the things that willtell you that you have lived," Sherman said,recalling the old man's advice. "The things thatyou do will determine what you have lived...
Commissioned as an ensign in May 1943, Rubinwas assigned to a Landing Craft Tank (LCT), whichcarried six Sherman medium tanks in a convoy boundfor Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands...
...John Sherman, a former aide, remembers once phoning the recuperating chairman after an appendectomy, only to have Rosty answer by rumbling, "What do you want?" He was so steeped in the culture of trading one favor for another that he had trouble believing Sherman had called merely to ask how he felt. Sherman quickly adds, however, another aspect of Rosty's mastery: "In dealing with the committee members, he had a code he never broke. It included giving political cover to every member, Republican or Democrat, in fending off requests of lobbyists or contributors." A member was always free...
...have assumed a pervasive, even obsessive dimension. One store reported a sudden boom in $2,000 steel-canopy beds capable of withstanding "an entire collapsing roof." Conversations are dominated by the quake. True tales of the fateful moment at 4:31 a.m. are told and retold: how in one Sherman Oaks home a water bed went wild, flipped its occupant against the ceiling and then heaved him against the wall as though to suffocate...