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...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 his sense of proportion. He did not need to shout, and as General of the Army or President he betrayed not the slightest trace of pretension or vainglory. There was, to be sure, a terrible temper, but as Field Marshal Lord Montgomery, a former subordinate and sometime critic of Eisenhower, said last week, "He had only to smile...
...slacks (admittedly a few wear skirts) stroll about in threes, in fives, push their way into the church. But the nave is crowded. The old women took their places early on Easter eve. They snap at each other and the girls come out. They circle around the courtyard, shout insolently, call each other from afar, and inspect the small green, pink and white flames lit outside the windows of the church and beside the tombs of canons and bishops. As for the boys-tough and mean-looking-all have an air of victory (though what victories, except perhaps knocking...
...Collins was asking some important questions," Carden said yesterday, "but he had a lot of strikes against him from the start. His group was totally alien to Harvard, and its only tactic was to shout at people. There were so few of them that when nobody followed, they lost a lot of their cool...
...office was to proclaim the addition of 7,500,000 acres to the National Parks System. That announcement proved to be premature when President Johnson turned down Udall's proposal and approved the allocation of a mere 384,500 acres. The public snub prompted the Secretary angrily to shout an offer of resignation to President Johnson over the telephone, an incident that Udall now greatly regrets...
...Southern boy hood in Black Boy, "not because they exploited us, but because we had been taught at home and in Sunday school that Jews were 'Christ killers.' We black children ? seven, eight and nine years of age ? used to run to the Jew's store and shout: 'Jew, Jew, Jew, what do you chew?' " This heritage of religion-bred hatred was augmented by economic resentment...