Word: founding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Returning to Abilene in 1952, Dwight Eisenhower spoke of his mother and father. "They were frugal," he said, "possibly of necessity, because I have found out in later years that we were very poor. But the glory of America is that we didn't know it then." In a 1959 speech, he again drew on his memories, going back to his days as an Army subaltern, newly married to Mamie Geneva Doud, when he scrimped to buy a tiny insurance policy. "Well," he said, "I gave up smoking readymade cigarettes and went to Bull Durham and the papers...
Churchill quickly found good use for his old friend and adversary. He appointed Halifax Ambassador to Washington, a mission, Churchill said, "as momentous as any that the monarchy has entrusted to an Englishman in the lifetime of the oldest of us." The U.S., still worried about foreign entanglements,' did not at first look kindly upon the towering lord from overseas. He rode to hounds in Pennsylvania, was pelted with eggs in Detroit ("Fortunate people," he smiled, "to be able to use eggs for such a purpose"). He traveled through every state in the union bearing his message: "All help...
...romantic marriage. Last week, when the police checked to see whether Teheran's shops were displaying a portrait of the Shah, some merchants thriftily dug out a picture of the Shah with his beautiful ex-Queen, the childless Soraya, and at least one found a photograph of him with his first wife, Fawzia (sister of Egypt's King Farouk), who had borne him only a daughter...