Word: superhumans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MacArthur's strategies helped to win three wars, but foreigners often appreciated him more than his own countrymen. Winston Churchill spoke of him as "the glorious commander." To the Japanese, whom he outwitted at nearly every turn, he seemed endowed with almost superhuman powers. Yet Franklin Roosevelt privately labeled him one of the two most dangerous men in America (the other was Huey Long), and Harry Truman called him "a counterfeit...
...would not be hit in the back. Robert E. Lee met his men with tears in his eyes to tell them it was his fault. "He pretty much told the truth," said Carter, pondering the lapses of judgment that are now attributed to Lee, who was almost superhuman in all other ways, in most other places...
...entitled to judge Carter quite severely. But he, and other Presidents, are entitled to be treated as Presidents-and not as superhuman figures. The danger is not so much that we will "destroy" our Presidents, but that we will destroy ourselves as citizens, by piling on our leaders all our own wants, desires faults and contradictions. -Henry Grunwald
Costly turnovers by the Harvard ballhandlers and the superhuman efforts of Tomasiewicz (20 points, 8 rebounds, 5 steals and 6 assists) buried the Crimson. Center Margaret Meier added 14 points to the Princeton attack, as with 3:38 to go in the game, she put in the 1001st point of her career. The finish was all orange and black, as the Tigers ran away with...
Call this one a heartbreaker. Riding the momentum of a superhuman 31-point effort by Brian Banks and a hustling, scraping second-half comeback, Harvard's basketball team fell short, 79-77, against Division 2 powerhouse Bentley College at the IAB last night...