Word: tecumseh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Historian Lloyd Lewis wrote with bugles blaring, battle flags waving and exclamation marks used like bayonet points ("Blood! Blood! Blood!"). His style was perfectly suited to the fiery temper of William Tecumseh Sherman, and his classic Sherman: Fighting Prophet inspired a more restrained younger historian, Bruce Catton, to make a career out of the Civil...
...Message. He has employed banter shrewdly, both to keep his audiences interested and to appear unruthless. In Tecumseh, Neb., the wind tore a scrap of paper from his hand. "That's my farm program," he said. "Give it back quickly." Of course, he has done more to raise farm prices than anyone else; just think, he says, of the milk, eggs and bread his children consume. Are his crowds packed with the young? "I'm going to lower the voting age to seven." What about all that money he's spending? He quotes from Jack: "I have a message from...
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...announcement came as a shock to reporters. "Does that include being drafted?" asked a newsman. "Including being drafted," said Scranton. And to prove that he meant to be as unshakable as William Tecumseh Sherman ("If nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve"), Scranton added, "I am not going to run for Congress this year-or ever. I am not going to run for the U.S. Senate in 1968-or ever. I am not going to run for the presidency in 1968-or ever...
...consciously set out to recount history, but only to leave his descendants a straightforward personal account of all he saw and did. And that was considerable. One of Meriwether's earliest memories, for example, is of the massacre at Pigeon Roost, Kentucky, when Indian followers of Tecumseh slaughtered 24 white settlers. He was only eleven, but his father sent him off on horseback to warn the Kentucky countryside that the Indians were on the rampage. At 14, he rode 100 miles in 48 hours carrying military dispatches. He trekked to the Upper Missouri in 1819, saw Sante...