Word: comely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last February, TIME'S Education Program sent a kit called "Black and White America" to 5,000 high school teachers for use in classroom discussions. The kit contains seven booklets, and it has proved so popular that requests for reprints have come in from all over the U.S. The kits are now available to the general public, at $3 each, from...
...launch hydrogen bombs. Only 42% would aid Italy, a staunch NATO ally. Americans would not go that far if other countries were threatened by a Communist takeover from within, even if the insurrection had outside help; in such a situation, for example, only 28% would have the U.S. come to the aid of Italy. Despite John Kennedy's ringing "Ich bin ein Berliner" declaration of U.S. solidarity with West Berlin, reaffirmed by President Nixon during his European visit two months ago, only 23% of Americans would be willing to risk nuclear war if West Berlin were in danger...
...particular, they would approve agreements with the Soviet Union to enlarge the U.N.'s peace-keeping role and to control nuclear weapons. While they support such initiatives, however, the only one given a real chance of success is nuclear-arms limitation; 51% think that is likely to come about, while 28% disagree and 21 % are uncertain...
...melee was Bernadette, newly elected M.P. from Ulster, and she went straight from the barricades to her maiden appearance in the House of Commons. Her plane from Belfast was delayed by a bomb scare, and she arrived exhausted but fighting. She landed with the proclamation that she had come "to knock sense into Harold Wilson." The British press had already made her a celebrity, and Westminster was packed, with long waiting lines outside, when Bernadette, in a new, striped blue, mauve and green sweater-dress purchased that morning in Piccadilly, took her seat in the back benches...
...their first day in Parliament, but in an assembly captivated by her before she ever opened her mouth, no rules applied. Her small peat-bog Irish voice twanged through the great hall as she tartly announced: "There never was born an Englishman who understands the Irish people." She had come, she said, to speak for the poor people, Protestant as well as Catholic, all oppressed by "the society of landlords who, by ancient charter of Charles II, still hold the rights of the ordinary people of Northern Ireland over such things as fishing and as paying the most ridiculous...