Word: bleakest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ruthless masters of the Terror THOMAS PAINE who silenced all opposition with the guillotine. The enduring importance of the revolution lies, rather, in the principles enunciated on its behalf by the philosophers of the Enlightenment, who bequeathed the notion of human equality to the modern world. During its bleakest hours, the American Revolution was resuscitated not so much by brilliant military strategy as by brilliant words-those of Tom Paine in the "times that try men's souls." Even less persuasive and more recondite words can have an impact that dramatic acts do not. Wrote Lord Keynes: "Madmen...
Perhaps the bleakest statistics of all come from the two major wire services, which have traditionally provided the main training ground for young journalists. With a U.S. news staff of almost 1,000, the Associated Press has only 12 blacks. Of the 650 news staffers who are now employed by United Press International in the U.S., about ten are black...