Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It involves standards of comparison. It is easy to sigh for the days of Senators with tongues of silver and minds of steel, to forget that some of today's Senators rank high in character and vision, that few of the present Senators are as bad as some specimens...
It does not lie in our mouths to criticize the student body at Cambridge. Its character is substantially affected by our inactivity. Our duty is to cooperate with the College authorities in organized, intelligent effort to attract the finest young men whom our country produces . . . The suggestion that the Committee...
The freshman member of the Joint Chiefs, he had stepped into his job four months ago when he became Chief of Naval Operations, in an atmosphere acrid with controversy and resentment. He had brought to the nation's highest military council something that had been too much forgotten in...
Satisfaction. "I rarely could perceive [in the interrogation] any personal hatred or enmity for me-contempt certainly, but sooner an academic, detached dealing with an annoying problem in order to achieve the goal, and a fanatic, rabid -obsession of devotion to Communism and hatred for Anglo-American resistance to them...
Part of this is due to a good script and fine direction. Stark's campaign speeches are the best example. They clearly show the transition from the rough, sincere desire of a man to serve the public to a skilled politician's desire to please the folks at home. Up...