Word: concurred
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...determining its policy in Asia the U.S. must either forever give Red China what it demands or draw the line. I concur with Richard Nixon [Feb. 5] that now is the time to take a stand...
...likely to step aside meekly for moderate leadership. Republican leaders who voted for Goldwater in San Francisco will retain power in local organizations. For the Arizona Senator, however, this fact will be of little comfort. Politicians disagree on many things, but on the need for victory they all concur. Barry Goldwater led the GOP to one of the worst defeats any American party has suffered in modern times. Republicans lost 39 seats in the House and 27 of 35 races for the Senate. On the state level, the party lost control of both houses of state legislatures in five states...
...concept of a "monument:" Webster's defines such an edifice as "a building, stone, pillar, or the like, erected in memory of the dead." Neitzche, you may remember, pronounced the Almighty's demise. Does Johnson concur? Some, for their own nefarious political purpose, may insinuate that he shares the philosopher's conviction. These ill-wishers may remind the voters of that compelling syllogism from Thus Spake Zarathustra: "If there were Gods, then how could I bear to be no God. Therefore, there are no Gods...
...claim 4,000 new victims; every year, surgeons put about 150,000 ulcer patients on the operating table. There are half a dozen major types of surgery for ulcers, plus a dozen minor variants. Some of them are al most a century old, but physicians and surgeons still cannot concur on which type of operation is the best, or even which is best for any particular patient...
Laurence did not entirely concur with this prediction, even though it came from Einstein. He has the scientist's habit of storing odd bits of information until they mesh, and by 1939 a pattern had begun to form. Routinely covering a scientific meeting at Columbia University that year, he carefully noted the heavy concentration of nuclear physicists and repeated allusions to "chain reaction," a phrase that meant little to him at the time. But by the following May, a story of his gave Times readers an advance look at the awesome energy packed into an isotope of uranium called...