Word: stuart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact, he had. He had been turning over an idea in his mind ever since last summer. At that time Air Secretary Stuart Symington had suggested that the way to handle the Russian crisis was to send Dwight Eisenhower over to talk with Stalin. That suggestion was dropped, but Clifford remembered it. He also remembered how the President had broken a deadlock over voting procedure in U.N. by sending Harry Hopkins to Moscow. From a political point of view, Eisenhower was probably not a very good choice for such a job now. But why not send Chief Justice Fred Vinson...
...completely live down a yarn like that, which was told to Parson Weems in 1800 by an "excellent lady." It is just such saccharine legends, overlaid with priggish nonsense, that have helped to make George Washington a forbidding figure in U.S. history. The too-well-known portraits, by Gilbert Stuart and others, haven't helped either. The frozen face of Washington that stares down on thousands of U.S. schoolkids is that of a jut-jawed old party whose cumbersome false teeth are giving him trouble...
...Freeman the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1934. Lee's Lieutenants, which followed, was an even more impressive achievement, and a complex study of Lee's command problem highlighted by brief, brilliant biographies of his commanders-Jackson, Stuart, Early and Longstreet...
...Army 32. Howie Houston, in Coach Art Valpey's opinion, played "the fineat tackle game I've ever seen at any time." Phil Isenberg and Kenny O'Donnell, standouts in the two previous games this year, made those performances look amateur. Jim Noonan's shifty running outclassed Bobby Jack Stuart's. Doug Bradice, Sam Butler, and Bill Henry were all outstanding...
Army deserved their win, however. Gil Stevenson and Bobby Jack Stuart were everything the Sunday papers said about them. Dun Foldberg and Charlie Kuyk probably did more than any other men on the field to bottle up the Crimson's offense...