Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unions. In Dahomey (pop. 2,200,000), the situation is aggravated by the fact that it once supplied civil servants for many other French colonies and boasted that "brains are our biggest export"; now it has an increasingly serious white-collar unemployment problem, for newly independent West African nations train their own government officials. The Dahomey rioters also denounced President Maga's "squander-mania," notably the magnificent palace he built himself...
When he actually found himself campaigning nine years later, Ike says he tried to avoid Republican embarrassment over the noisy Senator Joseph McCarthy by asking that his campaign train bypass Wisconsin. Ike felt an added personal embarrassment: high among McCarthy's list of "traitors" was Ike's old boss and longtime friend, General George C. Marshall. But the campaign managers routed him into the state anyway and sat him on a platform with McCarthy himself. Why did Ike drop from his speech a tribute to Marshall? The professional politicians pointed out that he had already defended Marshall...
...attractions and advantages of the proposed policy of withdrawing by the end of 1965 are three: The Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have estimated that by this time the American mission in South Vietnam will be able to train the huge South Vietnamese army sufficiently to conduct the war successfully itself. If it was accurate then, it should now allow for a margin of safety, since virtually all observers agree that the war will fare better under the new government...
...into one of Boston's most conservative families in 1880. Gossip about her eccentric habits soon developed--in part, one suspects, because the more proper Boson matrons envied her beauty and growing group of admirers. Of course, Mrs. Gardner willingly provided eccentricities for gossip--for example after missing the train to a party, Mrs. Gardner hired a locomotive, climbed into its cabin with the engineer, and shocked the party by arriving in this high style...