Word: truths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High Navy brass found out the truth of a remark that former Treasury Secretary Humphrey once made about Anderson: "Don't be misled about him just because he doesn't shout and pound the table the way I do. He can be firm as a rock." Shortly after he took over as boss of the Navy, Anderson overruled a promotion board's decision to pass over abrasive Captain Hyman Rickover, nuclear submarine pioneer, for the second and final time (two failures to win promotion to rear admiral meant automatic retirement). Determined to keep Rickover in the Navy...
Although Vag sometimes remarked that his body was nothing more than a vehicle to carry his head around on, the truth was that he really did care. He had no reason to be generally proud of his physique, but it did have its fine points. His calves, for instance, would have been admired in the eighteenth century and he almost regretted the passing of knee britches...
...gift of $500,000 "to encourage spiritual communication between men of different religious faiths" will make the construction possible. By means of a "sympathetic study of the religions of the world," each scholar in the center "may gain a clear insight and firmer faith in the truth of his own religion," according to terms of the donation...
Munro was then firing shots at his goalie in an effort to find out what Bagnoli could do. And, truth to tell, Bagnoli wasn't faring too well. He had trouble catching the ball with the cumbersome cast on his hand, and had developed a mental block about diving to his right. But although Munro had some serious doubts, he still could not discount Bagnoli. "He can do anything he wants to do," Munro said...
WHEREVER the truth lay, the thought of Charlie Revson being flabbergasted was almost more than Madison Avenue and the cosmetics industry could bear. When it comes to business, Revson not only knows all the answers, he knows the questions too. To underlings and admen who do not know them, Revson is a merciless taskmaster. He has axed his way through seven different ad agencies in the past three years, rubbed off dozens of account executives. At one time his executive turnover was so great that people who stayed at Revlon a year, so the story goes, got together...