Word: particularly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Innocent Abroad. None of this seemed like proper preparation for life among the great, but when Harry Truman went to the White House, John Maragon hopped right in behind him. He was, it developed, a particular friend of the President's military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan. According to his own appraisal, he was also a great friend of the President, even had a White House pass (since revoked...
...Every bullet, every item, has been planned because of a particular need for this somewhere. If you cut it, you will not achieve some vital purpose." So Secretary of State Dean Acheson told the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week in his precise and impressive manner...
...hand, instead of a lie on his tongue. But, conscientious cop and efficient public servant that he is, J. Edgar Hoover regards his new mission, and the attacks he receives because of it, as part of his job. He knows that he cannot afford to be too particular about the information he collects: 75% of FBI convictions began as tips. As for accusations that he is engaged in a witch hunt, he points to the FBI's record. If only 91 out of 2,597,000 Government employees checked by the FBI have been discharged for disloyalty, he argues...
...senators got similar exercise. Just before the Atlantic pact debate, Interior Minister Mario Scelba discussed Communist charges that he had used his police force illegally during the recent farm strike. Said he: "Idle talk to make us lose our nerve. But the government in general and I in particular have stronger nerves than some quarters." Communist nerves had been edgy all day. When a Christian Democratic senator called a Communist senator "an unworthy child of Sardinia," the Sardinian demanded that his opponent retract the remark on pain of having his ears cut off. The opponent did not retract. After Scelba...
...Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe," she wrote, "will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people...