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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Truman

surname, attested by 1215, literally "faithful man, trusty man."

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Truman, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 1259
Housing Units (2000): 542
Land area (2000): 1.085269 sq. miles (2.810833 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.085269 sq. miles (2.810833 sq. km)
FIPS code: 65668
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 43.828011 N, 94.433669 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 56088
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Truman

Truman is a name of English origin that can be traced back to the Devon region of England. It may refer to:

Truman (1995 film)

Truman is a multi-award winning 1995 HBO movie based on David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Truman. Starring Gary Sinise as Harry S. Truman, the film centers on Truman's rise to the presidency from humble beginnings, World War II, and his decision to use the first atomic bomb. The film's tagline is "It took a farmer's hand to shape a nation."

Truman (surname)

Truman is a surname of English origin, and may refer to

  • Sir Benjamin Truman (1700–1780), English entrepreneur and brewer
  • Benjamin C. Truman (1835–1916), American journalist and author
  • Bess Truman (1885–1982), wife of President Truman
  • Christine Truman (born 1941), British tennis player
  • David Truman (1913–2003), American academic
  • Edwin M. Truman (born 1941), American economist
  • Harry Randall Truman (1896–1980), American victim of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
  • Harry S. Truman (1884–1972), US President
  • James S. Truman (1874–1957), New York state senator
  • Louis Truman (1908–2004), American general
  • Lyman Truman (1806–1881), New York state senator
  • Margaret Truman (1924–2008), American writer, daughter of President Truman
  • Michael Truman (1916–1972), British film producer
  • Ralph Truman (1900–1977), British actor
  • Timothy Truman (born 1956), American writer
Truman (book)

Truman is a 1992 biography of the 33rd President of the United States Harry S. Truman written by popular historian David McCullough. The book won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. The book was later made into a movie with the same name by HBO.

Truman (2015 film)

Truman is a 2015 Spanish-Argentine comedy-drama film directed by Cesc Gay and co-written by Gay and Tomàs Aragay. The film stars Ricardo Darín, Javier Cámara, and Dolores Fonzi.

It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival and in the Official Section of the 2015 San Sebastián International Film Festival, where it was awarded the Silver Shell for Best Actor for Darín and Cámara. It won five Goya Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor (Darín), and Best Supporting Actor (Cámara).

Usage examples of "truman".

Roosevelt and Truman administrations, try to imagine a parallel universe today.

Even before the Venona Project was declassified, there were subtle clues that the Roosevelt and Truman administrations were having staffing problems.

Years later, as President Lyndon Johnson contemplated war in Vietnam, he was murmuring about how the Roosevelt and Truman administrations had been accused of losing China.

All of the huge military budgets of the post-World War II period, from Truman to Reagan and Bush, were approved overwhelmingly by both Democrats and Republicans.

Because of inept Democrats, Soviet penetration was so deep that Stalin would learn about the atomic bomb before President Truman did.

But Moynihan claimed that if only Roosevelt and Truman had been told about the precise mechanics of the Venona Project, perhaps the Democrats would have finally expressed curiosity about the many Soviet spies in their employ.

KidSafe Firearms Education Program, introduced in the wake of the Truman Middle School shootings - it was less a treasured memory than a useful desk accessory.

In this case, we know that Truman killed Grundle and your only hope is to prove that he had a sufficient motive.

He waited there an hour before the tall black halfgod came striding in with his muman guards and truman girls.

His truman helpers brought him a little pink stain out of the new autoclave.

Despite the fact that President Truman had signed an As advanced as German rocketry had been at the end of executive order banning the immigration of Nazis into the the war with the V-2 and jet aircraft, their advancements in United States, the practice continued unabated, all in the the field of biological and chemical warfare had been chill- name of national security.

Truman seemingly established a committee of twelve scientists and government officials to examine a set of crashed flying saucers and little alien bodies.

Truman instructed his secretary of state Dean Acheson not to attend a reception for Churchill a week later in New York.

In The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam argues that, contrary to public perception at the time, Truman and Acheson were aggressive anti-Communists.

That President Truman was taken to a secret American airbase in the late Nineteen Forties to be introduced to alien entities.