Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lippmann helped draft the Lend-Lease Act. He talked World War I Hero John Pershing, then 80, into endorsing Roosevelt's destroyer deal with Britain, helped write Pershing's speech, then in print praised it. Similarly he and his colleague James Reston flattered the vain old Republican isolationist Arthur Vandenberg into supporting the United Nations in 1945, and wrote the turn-around speech that Vandenberg read to the Senate. And, of course, praised...
...never enough to make up for your loss." Either way, the survivor child is likely to feel isolated. Says Miriam Schiller, whose mother survived the Warsaw ghetto and Auschwitz: "When I was very little, all my parents' friends were survivors. Even among American Jews, I was an isolationist. I always felt separate from the people around...
...Steve Lundquist, 19, a swimmer from Southern Methodist University: "You look forward to this all your life. Suddenly they just pull it out from under you." At first Al Oerter, 43, a four-time gold medal winner in the discus, complained that U.S. withdrawal from the Games was "passive, isolationist, weak." But like many other athletes he had changed his mind by last week. Said he: "I feel we should stop bellyaching and get behind the President. It is time to put personal considerations aside...