Word: besting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with his personal brand of austerity. Written in a succinct style that U.S. analysts immediately pronounced authentic, it called on North Viet Nam's Communists to preserve the unity that has marked the party over its 24-year history and expressed hopes that his successors would do their best to reduce the tensions besetting other Communist parties (see following story). As for the war that had occupied his final years, he predicted: "The U.S. imperialists will have to pull out. Our compatriots in the North and in the South will be reunited under the same roof...
...author of The Love Machine went through her chat with Carson, the subject never came up. Just as she was to leave, her host asked innocently: "What do you think of Truman?" "Truman . . . Truman," she considered gravely. "I think history will prove he was one of the best Presidents...
Psychological Difference. "Concentration" is fast becoming a sports column cliche, but it is the best word the tennis world has found to sum up the psychological difference between one finely trained, fundamentally expert player and another. Says Pancho Gonzales: "Rod is the most disciplined of them all. What I admire most about him is his determination and concentration. He just wears you down...
...evangelicals move away from their recent patterns of spiritual isolationism and back toward involvement in society, leaders who have been advocating this change have become more prominent. Billy Graham, certainly the world's best-known evangelical, has himself been urging a renewed social thrust, but there are even stronger voices. Among the most influential...
...highly successful Oklahoma oilman, Miller has left business twice, first to earn a divinity degree at the Quakers' Earlham College, more recently to work on a doctorate in psychological counseling. Though theologically orthodox, Miller advocates interpersonal Christianity, in which, as he sees it, small, informal groups work best to infuse society with a spirit of honesty and love...