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...first love is G-3 [operations]. That's what the Army is all about." Almond was soon promoted to Deputy Chief of Staff. In 1949 he moved up to Chief of Staff. Subordinates noted that the promotion had its effect on Almond's temper. The genial deputy chief became a hardboiled, hard-driving chief...
...surely where they will be hard to get rid of. At its best, Frost's crabapple-tart verse distills into the pure liquor of lyric poetry. Stopping by Woods is one of the loveliest poems ever written. Every U.S. schoolboy knows Birches. His lines carry the tone and temper of New England's dour and canny folk, often have the tren chancy and inevitability of folk sayings. Frost has made "good fences make good neighbors"* part of the language. Chores are "doing things over and over that just won't stay done"; home is "the place where...
Double Trouble. Congressional critics were quick to catch the change of temper; most Democrats regarded both Secretaries as albatrosses around the President's neck. Last week, for the first time since the Korean war, Johnson and Acheson marched up Capitol Hill together to argue for the $4 billion foreign-arms program. They would get the money, all right. But for more than three hours, behind closed doors, committeemen blistered the Administration's failure to prepare for Korea. This time Acheson was not the only one to draw the committee's anger. Johnson, who had long done...
...smile that made me feel good clear down to my stomach"); 6) fairness ("She gives you exactly what you deserve"); 7) sense of humor ("She puts some fun into each day so school does not seem so monotonous"); 8) good disposition ("I'm sure she must have a temper, as most people do, but I have never seen an example of it"); 9) interest in the individual ("She has helped me over a period of self-consciousness, and my improvement is due to her making me feel at ease"); 10) flexibility ("When she found she was wrong she said...
...nation was good and mad at Communists-home-grown as well as the U.S.S.R. and North Korean varieties-and here & there its temper not only boiled up but boiled over. Items: ¶ In Detroit, the common council forbade sidewalk news vendors to sell "subversive literature," gave the commissioner of police the job of determining what was subversive. The Detroit Newspaper Guild protested that they disliked Commie publications ("They are dismal examples of journalism. They have shown a constant disregard for the truth.") but didn't believe in suppressing them. The council decided to think it over for a week...