Word: tecumseh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pentagon office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense, on the ornate library table once owned by William Tecumseh Sherman, perches a model of the Oozlefinch Bird, a wondrous creature indeed. This week, as the Congress returns to a Washington torn between the costly requirements of national defense and the allure of economy in an election year, and as a high-powered Rockefeller committee reports on the faults of the nation's defense organization, the Secretary of Defense need be even more wondrous than the Oozlefinch. For an appraisal of Neil Hosier McElroy, sixth U.S. Secretary of Defense, see NATIONAL...
...about 1,000,000 Confederates-crackling like a flaming canebrake from New Mexico to Chesapeake Bay. It was a costly war-about 500,000 men dead in both armies. It was also total war, the New World's first. "If the people raise a howl," red-bearded William Tecumseh Sherman is rasping, "I will answer that war is war and not popularity-seeking. If they want peace . . . they must stop...
...should have been a good fit; Dick Russell has not forgotten that Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, on his march through Georgia, burned Russell's grandfather's cotton mills and freed his 100-odd slaves. † For his cut-rate installation, after much haggling, Marlborough plunked down ?4,500, a bargain price for Mindelheim, which yielded a'Udy ?1,500 a year to its fief-holder...
...wanted to come into your homes this evening," he said, "because I feel the need of talking with you directly about a decision I made today after weeks of the most careful and devoutly prayerful consideration." Then, reversing the formula that another general, William Tecumseh Sherman, used in 1884, he said: "I have decided that if the Republican Party chooses to renominate me I shall accept the nomination. Thereafter, if the people of this country should elect me I shall continue to serve them in the office I now hold. I have concluded that I should permit the American people...
...Cover) "This country," said General William Tecumseh Sherman, meaning Florida, "is not worth a damn."* Naturalist John James Audubon reported: "All that is not mud, mud, mud is sand, sand, sand." As of today, Sherman is wrong and Audubon is for the birds...