Word: boilingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wall Street Journal rose to the boil: "Tax cutting is not at all the surest and soundest way to a balanced budget; that way is to reduce spending. Too bad the President didn't end his speech about a third of the way through-when he was way ahead with his attractive tax-cut proposals. Instead, he apparently thought it was necessary to tack on a motley assortment of recommendations adding up to a 'domestic program...
...basic motives for revolution boil down to one: love of killing. At first the rebels are content to kill only their oppressors, who by and large deserve it. But before long, they are making no distinctions, shooting down and stringing up innocent and guilty alike. They even compete at cruel deeds. Boasts one: "When I was up at Torreón, I killed an old lady who refused to sell me some enchiladas. I got no enchiladas but I felt satisfied anyhow!" Another tops that: "I killed a man because I always saw him sitting at the table whenever...
...getting a lot of attention. From meetings in Europe with Adenauer and De Gaulle, he whisked into Washington for chats with nearly every Cabinet member from Dean Rusk to Luther Hodges, even had ten minutes with President Kennedy on a day when the Cuban crisis was coming to a boil. As Sato moved on to the U.N. and Canada, it was obvious that he was more than just another member of the Diet. He was, in fact, everybody's odds-on choice to become Japan's next Prime Minister...
...tower separated, and soon he reported "all systems green and go." Then he settled down to cheerful, competent and dutiful space flying. He watched the instruments closely and talked with each control station as he passed near it. Like the other astronauts, Schirra ran into trouble with the water boil-off system of his space suit, and its temperature became so high on the first orbit that some thought was given to aborting the flight. But Schirra quickly got the suit's temperature down by manipulating its controls, later announced: "It's not worth even discussing any more...
...TIME'S article on Cuba [Sept. 14]. Then came the evening paper headlining the Soviet Union's latest threat, and I have never in my life been so downright mad. Because of our President's indecision and hesitation, the thorn in our side has become a boil...