Word: goodly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Pearl Harbor ignited Bush emotionally, though not yet intellectually. He enlisted and went off to the Pacific as a torpedo-bomber pilot. "It was good vs. evil," he says. "The evil was epitomized by Adolf Hitler and Emperor Hirohito. There was never any second-guessing, never any rationalization about what we might have done differently." Bush was "quite aware" of the cold war. He talked about it with his father Prescott Bush, who was then a U.S. Senator from Connecticut. Bush met Dwight Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, the diplomat who riled the world by suggesting...
...ostentation of the 1980s vanished; hello, '90s humility. Good intentions became fashionable once more -- even marketable. Ben & Jerry's Rainforest Crunch ice cream was a best seller...
...When the Soviets made this threat in September, did you ask the West if it would make good the shortfall in these deliveries...
...occurring at a time when politically things are not the best. All kinds of demons are appearing -- nationalism, anti-Semitism and populism. I understand this is a time of transition. But lifting the lid from a pot where a new dish is being cooked may not be a good idea...
...totally at ease with power," says Marty Connors, executive director of the Southern Republican Exchange, a Birmingham think tank founded by Alexander. Equally important, Alexander and his wife are longtime social intimates of the Bushes who get along with the First Family on a first-name basis. Good choice, George...