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Hoover

noun as in vacuum cleaner

Weak match

verb as in gormandize

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We live in a world where a J. Edgar Hoover biopic got made before a Martin Luther King Jr. one.

Such was the corrosive paranoia of the time, fueled by McCarthy and abetted by Hoover.

The world in which a J. Edgar Hoover movie exists before an MLK movie is utterly bizarre to me.

Two years later, Kansas helped oust Curtis—and Hoover—by voting for Franklin Roosevelt and re-electing McGill.

Later, the White House passed from McKinley to Theodore Roosevelt to Taft, and then from Harding to Coolidge to Hoover.

Men of the stamp of Herbert Hoover have demonstrated the very great need for men of scientific training in public affairs.

The first problem young Hoover had to solve at college, however, was the way of meeting his living expenses.

The first thing you think about Hoover, said a man who knew him in college, is that he is a free soul and feels himself free.

Well, replied Mr. Hoover, with some hesitation, you see it wasnt a particularly easy job.

I have managed to get all these things, Hoover interposed, and am now through with them all except the steamers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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