Word: jacksonism
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...John B. Moses and Wilbur Cross relate in the book Presidential Courage (W.W. Norton Co., 1980), many Presidents suffered, usually in silence and secrecy, from chronic and painful diseases. George Washington had a giant benign tumor in his leg and was the victim of rheumatism and repeated pneumonia. Andrew Jackson, famous for his stamina and courage, was described in a contemporary article in the Boston Medical School Journal as "a tottering scarecrow in deadly agony," a man in whom "the malaria, the dysentery, the osteomyelitis and the bronchiectasis were going on, and on, and on." But Jackson continued to lead...
...family coverage, and on a talk show he asked Secretary of State George Shultz whether "we are so paralyzed by 40 lives" that our foreign policy was jeopardized. Some word-processor warriors were quite ready to sacrifice the hostages in their eagerness for "bold" retaliatory action, usually unspecified. C.D. Jackson, who served on General Eisenhower's wartime staff, used to call such macho talk "making tiny fists in your pocket...
...claims Petty Officer First Class Robert Jackson, 26, who served ten months aboard the San Diego-based carrier. Working as an auditor on the ship, he accumulated about 1,100 pages of notes and documents on what he describes as appalling acts of waste, fraud, auditing forgeries and altered books in the handling of spare parts and other equipment. The system was so lax, Jackson charges, that when bookkeepers in various departments feared they were exceeding their budgets on supplies, they simply neglected to enter further purchases in the computerized record system. Jackson contends that he examined twelve departments last...
...handful of students about their favorite MJ song, and whether his ongoing child-molestation trial taints the experience. The consensus, perhaps predictably, was “no.” For some reason, “Beat It” appears to be Harvard’s favorite Jackson song—is it because of the song’s alienation fantasy or sexual innuendo...
...remember the names of any other songs...if you’re a non-native [English] speaker, you’re more likely to remember the words if they’re repetitive. When I was in kindergarten we used to dance and jump around to Michael Jackson. In Turkey [where I grew up] he’s just taken as a joke…as long as he doesn’t touch my child, I don’t care...