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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Eisenhower

surname, from German Eisenhauer, literally "iron-cutter, iron-hewer," "perhaps based on Fr. Taillefer" [George F. Jones, "German-American Names," 3rd ed., 2006].

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Eisenhower (album)

Eisenhower is the fourth studio album and eighth album overall by American indie rock band The Slip. It was released November 7, 2006 on Bar/None Records. It was produced by The Slip and Matthew Ellard (who has also produced for Elliott Smith and Billy Bragg and Wilco) and engineered by Drew Malamud (Stars, Metric).

The album represents a departure for the Boston band, going from their previous jazz-fused to sound to a more streamlined, indie rock sound. It features contributions from Japanese singer Ua, and Chris Seligman from the Canadian indie band Stars.

The song " Even Rats" was featured in the PlayStation 2 video game Guitar Hero. Live versions of "Children of December" and "If One of Us Should Fall" were previously released on Live at Lupo's 6/12/04, and another live version of the latter was on Alivelectric. "Children of December" and "Even Rats" were released for the Rock Band video game series through the Rock Band Network on March 4, 2010.

Eisenhower (surname)

Eisenhower is a surname derived from the German word , meaning "iron hewer". Notable people with the surname include:

  • David Eisenhower (born 1948), historian, son of John Eisenhower
  • Doud Eisenhower (1917–1921), infant son of future-President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Mamie Eisenhower
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969), five-star general and 34th President of the United States
  • Earl D. Eisenhower (1898–1968), American electrical engineer and politician, brother of President Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Edgar N. Eisenhower (1889–1971), American lawyer, brother of President Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Jennie Elizabeth Eisenhower (born 1978), actress, daughter of David and Julie Eisenhower
  • John Eisenhower (1922–2013), U.S. Army officer, son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Mamie Eisenhower
  • Julie Nixon Eisenhower (born 1948), daughter of Richard Nixon and wife of David Eisenhower
  • Mamie Eisenhower (1896–1979), wife of President Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Mary Jean Eisenhower (born 1955), international charity worker, daughter of John Eisenhower
  • Milton S. Eisenhower (1899–1985), American University President, brother of President Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Susan Eisenhower (born 1951), author and expert on international security, daughter of John Eisenhower

Usage examples of "eisenhower".

Eisenhower beat his Democratic rival, Adlai Stevenson, in the US presidential election, and in Hollywood, one of the few bright moments in a dull year was the debut appearance of a stunning blond starlet named Marilyn Monroe.

Even before Eisenhower had returned from Europe, two-time Democratic rival Adlai E.

Ann Morgan was also the prettiest, chestiest, most spectacular bomb-shell senior, junior or whatever lady wiggling her well-proportioned body down the halls of Eisenhower High.

One reason, more rational than emotional, that Eisenhower was concerned about his troops was his realization that while he, SHAEF, the generals, and the admirals could plan, prepare the ground, provide covering support, ensure adequate supplies, deceive the Germans, and in countless other ways try to ensure victory, in the end success rested with the footslogger carrying a rifle over the beaches of Normandy.

In 1961, on his last day in office, Eisenhower told President-elect Kennedy that if Laos were to fall to communism, it would be only a matter of time before South Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Burma fell too.

In February 1956 Eisenhower did nothing when white mobs went on a rampage at the University of Alabama and chased black applicant Autherine Lucy out of town.

The man that not even Goldwater or Eisenhower could tolerate had finally gone too far -- and now he was walking the plank, on national TV, six hours a day -- with The Whole World Watching, as it were.

The National Security Advisor was in his shirtsleeves, his suit coat draped over one of the twenty or so chairs in the room where presidents had been meeting with their most trusted advisors since Dwight David Eisenhower.

We have learned definitely from a meeting of Visitors held aboard a spaceship in the South Atlantic to which they invited two of our associates, that the Visitors have grown distrustful of the behavior of the Eisenhower Administration and are going to reveal themselves and take over the United States government next Tuesday.

Johnson, President Eisenhower, Secretary Wilson, the astronauts Deke Slayton and Mike Collins, and the scientists Jack Eddy, John Houbolt and Carl Sagan, but they are not given fictitious roles or inflated speeches.

Eisenhower then ordered a secret, systematic blacklisting of the listed individuals throughout the federal government.

Like a storeowner whose family business has been seized by the bank, Eisenhower briefed his successor on a wide assortment of pending business.

Dwight David Eisenhower, looking tired, sat for the last time in the tall leather chair from which he had led so many momentous discussions over the past eight years.

In the age of Eisenhower and Kerouac, the nonstudent went about stealing his education as quietly as possible.

October it looked as if the senator would be reelected, just as it seemed certain that General Eisenhower would win the state and probably the nation.