Word: spelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower had to come back from a heart attack and prove to himself and the people that he was again well enough to assume the full burdens of the presidency. Then he had to confront another opponent in the form of an ailment that few Americans could identify or spell - ileitis. But he defeated both, and his health was never an important issue in the campaign. One big reason: everywhere he went, the people saw a picture of good, vigorous, glowing health...
...issues like a corn husker. His big try was the H-bomb, but as he ranged across the land from New York to Illinois to California he went from H-bomb to foreign policy, to economics, the farm problem, unemployment and corruption. Sometimes he put them all together to spell NIXON. His language was harsh. "I don't mind telling you," he snapped at highly successful Democratic rallies in the New York suburbs, "I am good...
...deep emotion, but when the spirit moves him he has a ringing voice and a rolling turn of phrase that can strike sparks in even the most phlegmatic audience. Last week, as he faced 300 reporters in one of his rare press conferences, debonair Harol Macmillan was under the spell of a vision that gave him eloquence. "I have seen in my lifetime the steady Balkanization and disruption of Europe." he said. "Europe has suffered wars. It has torn itself to pieces twice in my lifetime like the ancient states of Greece. [Now] a great future opens up, a great...
West Germany's reluctance, voiced by Konrad Adenauer, to accept a military draft is but a symptom, though an important one, of feelings in France and Holland. Adenauer reasons that if America can afford to institute a manpower cut that will spell pulling out of our European bases, Germany need not meet its violently unpopular quota of 500,000 men in arms...
...latter-day Sir Winston's Blenheim prose palace, the six-volume, 2,561-page Marlborough, His Life and Times. John was slim and handsome, brave as a lion, as full of twists as a corkscrew. He was ambitious beyond belief, but never lost his temper or learned to spell. Through sheer brilliance he worked himself up to the rank of general. But it was not until Queen Anne came to the throne that John Churchill had the chance to astonish Europe. And even then, he would never have succeeded without the backing of his amazing wife Sarah...