Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest-but the myth-persistent, persuasive and unrealistic." Kennedy categorized the myths: Big Government. "Let us take first the question of the size and shape of Government. The myth is here that Government is big and bad-and steadily getting bigger and worse." Not so, said the President. "For the fact is for the last 15 years the Federal Government, and also the federal debt, and also the federal bureaucracy, have grown less rapidly than the economy as a whole . . . The truth about big Government is the truth about any other great...
...Kennedy-appointed fact-finding commission last October suggested in effect that the jobs of third pilot and flight engineer be combined. The President requested that the issue be submitted to binding arbitration, and the airlines agreed. But the flight engineers, fearful lest they be swallowed up by the bigger (14,000 member) and better organized Pilots Association, refused...
...scientific advances. A huskily built, aggressive and imaginative surgeon, Dr. Nakayama reasoned that earlier operations on asthma patients had been based on mistaken theories of how human nerve networks function. He concluded that a minute organ buried in the fork of an artery in the neck, and no bigger than a grain of rice, is an important element in breathing control. Discovered in 1743, it is called the carotid body, or glomus caroticum*; there is one on each side of the neck...
...Award and justified acclaim as the best American short storyist to appear since Salinger. It was a sour, funny look at Jewish life in the U.S., and the only doubt critics had was whether an author capable of such superb genre-painting would ever trouble himself to attempt the bigger (and presumably more important) picture...
...work is a bigger book, although not perhaps a bigger or better picture. Letting Go is a long, sober novel, mostly about the uncertainties of the university young (some Jewish, some gentile, none religious). Despite serious flaws, it is one of the better works of fiction published this year. The author's eye and ear have few equals, and on every page the reader knows that he is in the presence of a writer...