The voice was that of Johnson, tail gunner off another crew.

Mrs. Roebuck thought Johnson was a `` sweet bawh t'lah lahk thet '', but her Herman was getting to be a man, there was no getting around it.

Johnson unwired the right hand door, whose window was, like the left one, merely loosely-taped fragments of glass, and Johnson wadded himself into a narrow seat made still more narrow by three cases of beer.

But it was only Johnson reaching around the wire chicken fencing, which half covered the truck cab's glassless rear window.

Johnson was trying to grab the wheel, though the swerve of the truck was throwing him away from it.

But the Indian was jabbing another bottle toward Johnson.

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

As Rector was walking back toward the residential hall, Johnson came out of the basement and bounded up to him.

You remember the words of President Kennedy a week or so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean Rusk was in Europe, and Vice President Johnson was in Asia, `` Who is running the store ''??

John Foster Dulles escaped by keeping his personal show on the road and because Lyndon Johnson, who was then operating the Senate, refused to let it become an Inquisition.

To Decathlon Man Rafer Johnson ( Time cover, Aug. 29 ), whose gold medal in last summer's Olympic Games was won as much on gumption as talent, went the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the outstanding U.S. amateur athlete of 1960.

Meanwhile, Douglas was selected as the candidate of the Northern Democrats, with Herschel Vespasian Johnson as the vice-presidential candidate.

Lincoln was a master politician, bringing together — and holding together — all the main factions of the Republican Party, and bringing in War Democrats such as Edwin M. Stanton and Andrew Johnson as well.

James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian ’ s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.

Among his staff was Isham G. Harris, the Governor of Tennessee, who had ceased to make any real effort to function as governor after learning that Abraham Lincoln had appointed Andrew Johnson as military governor of Tennessee.

The American Film Institute ( AFI ) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.

It was renamed in honor of Lyndon Johnson by federal law, soon after his death in 1973.

The eponymous protagonist of the musical, Johnny Johnson, is eventually diagnosed with peace monomania.

After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001 Johnson became more vocal on the issue, stating " Breast cancer can happen to any woman, regardless of who she is.

In 2001 Johnson was diagnosed with breast cancer.

'" Johnson was diagnosed with appendicitis later that night, which was the cause of his writhing around on stage.

In September 2009, Johnson was diagnosed with Barrett syndrome.

Johnson has been a full-time volunteer for AIDS research fundraising since his son was diagnosed.

He held up the case of Johnson Aziga, who was diagnosed in 1996 but then allegedly had unprotected sex with at least 13 women.

In August 1991, following hospitalization due to a brain aneurysm, Johnson was diagnosed with brain cancer.

In August 1991, as he was preparing the U. S. team for the upcoming Canada Cup tournament, Johnson suffered a brain aneurysm and was hospitalized, where he was diagnosed with brain cancer.

In 2003, Johnson was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, but continued his work through June 2006, when he began treatment.

In 2002, Johnson was diagnosed with breast cancer.

In a clinical setting, learning disabilities are generally diagnosed through a comparison of intelligence scores and scores on an achievement test, such as the Woodcock Johnson III or Wechsler Individual Achievement Test II.

On November 7, 1991, Magic Johnson made the shocking announcement that he had been diagnosed with the HIV virus and was thusly retiring from the NBA at the age of 31.

Johnson was serving as a coach with California when he was diagnosed with lung cancer, which claimed his life on April 23, 1992, at the age of 53.

Johnson Jones Hooper, whose character Simon Suggs bears a close kinship to Flem Snopes in both his willingness to take cruel advantage of all and sundry and the sharpness with which he habitually carried out his will ; ;

In agreement with Johnson, Donald C. Baker points out the similarity between both authors ' tones and use of irony.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.

alt = President John F. Kennedy addresses a joint session of Congress, with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn seated behind him

As a Jeffersonian and Jacksonian, Johnson refused to toe any party line throughout his political career – though he primarily ran as a Democrat, with the exception of his vice-presidency.

She bound Andrew as a boy as an apprentice tailor ; Johnson had no formal education but taught himself how to read and write, with some help from his masters, as was their obligation under his apprenticeship.

As a youngster living in poverty, along with his childhood friends, Johnson was an object of ridicule from members of higher social circles ; as such, he was commonly referred to as " poor white trash " by the elite in Raleigh.

At age 16 or 17, Johnson left his apprenticeship and ran away with his brother William.

Johnson returned to Raleigh and moved with his mother, stepfather and brother to Greeneville, Tennessee.

Johnson initiated public debates by organizing a debating society with Blackston McDannel, a customer.

The constitution was submitted for a public vote and Johnson campaigned for its adoption ; his support of the new work provided him with additional positive statewide exposure.

In 1835, Johnson made a bid for election to the " floater " seat for his district in the Tennessee House of Representatives ; he " demolished " the opposition in debate and won the election with almost a two to one margin.

In his first term in the state house, Johnson did not ally with either the Democrats or the Whigs consistently, though he revered Jackson, the Democratic President.

Johnson supported the Compromise of 1850 with the exception of its abolition of slavery in the nation's capital.

At this time Johnson built a larger home in Greeneville ( Eliza had given birth to another son and his mother had moved in with them following the death of his stepfather.

Johnson had been so obsessed with the measure that he was said to be " a little cracked on the subject ".

Johnson attempted to make the most of the opportunities the position offered, using it as a springboard to higher honors, as the Governor's powers in the state were limited to offering mere suggestions on legislation ( with no veto power ), and managing the Bank of Tennessee and the penitentiary.

Johnson was surprisingly victorious, albeit with a narrower margin.

Not long thereafter Johnson gave a speech in Nashville, denouncing the Know Nothing Party, and rebuked a prominent Whig lawyer, Thomas T. Smiley, who took issue with him.

Johnson decided not to seek a third term as Governor, with an eye towards election to the United States Senate.

Johnson continued to ingratiate himself with the North, the President-elect and his party, with his Unionist speeches in the Senate in early 1861: " I have an abiding confidence in the intelligence, the patriotism, and the integrity of the people, and I feel in my own heart that, if this subject could be got before them, they would settle the question and the Union of these States would be preserved.

" In fact, Lincoln ultimately looked to Johnson for considerable help with Tennessee's federal patronage decisions.

When Tennessee seceded, though the vote did not win a majority in East Tennessee, Johnson was forced to flee from the state with armed security ; he was in fact the only Senator from the seceded states to continue participation in Congress.