Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nine men out of more than 200 to become a member of the second group of astronauts. Rookie Anders allows his two senior crewmates to do most of the talking, but was aroused enough when British Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell criticized the concept of Apollo 8 to speak for all the astronauts in a vigorous rebuttal of Lovell...
Thomas' pacifism wavered during the Spanish Civil War, when he sympathized with the loyalist opposition to Franco. But it led him to speak against the U.S. intervention in World War II before isolationist America First audiences, because he feared that entry into the war would bring about fascism at home. Later, however, he concluded that an Axis triumph would condemn the world to the "lowest circle of hell," and gave "critical support" to the war. But when the U.S. used the atomic bomb against Japan, he cried out in protest...
...superbly professional storyteller, but his work was at times flawed by facile allegorizing. In the preface to 1935's Tortilla Flat, an otherwise sharp and accurate novel of the innocent gaiety of the paisanos in Monterey, he wrote: "When you speak of Danny's house, you are understood to mean a unit of which the parts are men, from which came sweetness and joy, philanthropy and, in the end, a mystic sorrow. For Danny's house was not unlike the Round Table, and Danny's friends were not unlike the knights." In 1952's East...
...when Eisenhower suffered a heart attack, Nixon turned to Rogers before anyone else. "He was a friend," Nixon later wrote in Six Crises, "who had proved during the fund crisis that he was a cool man under pressure, had excellent judgment, and was one to whom I could speak with complete freedom without any concern that what I might say would find its way into the Washington gossip mill...
...advocating specific policies, Rogers is not expected to be bashful once he has immersed himself in the subject. His associates speak of him as anything but a mere mouthpiece, rather as one who is likely to assert his own and his department's views vigorously. Having total access to the President will be an obvious advantage. Senator Jacob Javits thinks the Nixon-Rogers relationship "might be like that of John and Robert Kennedy." If so, State may regain some of the influence it lost to the Pentagon when it could not compete with the strong leadership of former Defense...