Truman

[troo-muhn]

noun

1. Elizabeth Virginia Wallace Bess, 1885–1982, U.S. First Lady 1945–53 (wife of Harry S Truman).

2. Harry S, 1884–1972, 33rd president of the U.S. 1945–53.

3. a male given name.

Truman

/ ˈtruːmən /

noun

1. Harry S . 1884–1972, US Democratic statesman; 33rd president of the US (1945–53). He approved the dropping of the two atomic bombs on Japan (1945), advocated the postwar loan to Britain, and involved the US in the Korean War

Example Sentences

In 1948, then-President Harry Truman gutted the inside of the White House as it was at risk of collapsing, adding a balcony to the exterior.

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This came as the Truman administration had just been shouted down by domestic and foreign opposition to a short-lived attempt to hand control of atomic weapons to the United Nations.

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The U.S. electorate believed Truman was right to avoid what Winston Churchill had called the “effusions of American blood” necessary to conquer Japan’s home islands.

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It’s like what Harry Truman said about Washington.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman regularly impounded funds during World War II. Even Dwight Eisenhower, a fiscal conservative, quietly held back highway funding when inflation soared.

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