Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, during a few tumultuous days, a spectacular series of international and national events tumbled forth in bewildering array and threw a whole set of imponderables into a presidential campaign that had previously seemed all too ponderable...
There could be no question that the Commission lived up to the responsibility outlined to it in its instructions from President Johnson: "To satisfy itself that the truth is known as far as it can be discovered." Backed and bulwarked by an astonishing array of facts, figures, investigative reports, interviews, minute-by-minute timetables, and a vast amount of common sense, the Commission concluded that...
...have steered the Eastern economies since World War II. They are acutely aware of the spectacular success of Western Europe's free market system, take professional pride in making farms and factories as efficient as possible. Perhaps most of all, they are openly disgusted at the smothering array of rules, regulations, senseless orders and excessive controls that have put Communist economies in their present mess...
...fair does handsomely by those with fat pocketbooks and fickle palates. Herring lovers will drool at the wide selection offered on Denmark's $6.50 cold board. The Spanish pavilion's Toledo and Granada restaurants dish up a numbing array of French and regional dishes. Africans (or at least Americans of African ancestry) in native robes serve groundnut soup and couscous ($4.50) in Africa's tree house, while the diner lucky enough to have a table on the balcony finds himself eyeball-to-eyeball with an inquisitive giraffe. Indonesia's seven-course, $7.75 dinner is spiced...
...hardly to be expected. Maxwell Taylor, U.S. Ambassador to Saigon, back in the U.S. for consultation, referred to an "upward trend" in the fighting. President Lyndon Johnson spoke of "continued progress" in embattled South Viet Nam. Hours later, the political balance in Saigon was being challenged by an array of dissatisfied soldiers...