Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Though a Wilsonian and Rooseveltian Democrat, Bowles was an early member of the isolationist America First Committee, as were many other New Dealers. His eagerness for public service got him at length into Washington, where he was F.D.R.'s price administrator and Truman's boss of the Office...
In New Delhi, Bowles was as undiplomatic a diplomat as the class-conscious Indians had ever seen. He and his wife rode bicycles through the streets, sent their three children to local Indian schools, studied Hindi in Thirty Days. He got along fine with Nehru, but sometimes, say his critics...
Once, Bowles publicly and unprofessionally took India's side in the Kashmir dispute, and some critics thought he bent over too far in helping Nehru squeeze as much U.S. aid out of Washington as the traffic would bear. Bowles's dedication and fervent propagandizing helped to form a...
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Bowles made a stab at the Senate in 1958 (he and ex-Partner Benton ran against each other for the Connecticut Democratic nomination; both lost to a third candidate), then ran a successful race for the House, but gave up his seat this year to devote himself to Kennedy'...