Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reduction and reform can stimulate the economy to close this gap between performance and capability, Kennedy argued. "The recovery that was initiated shortly after I took office now stands poised at a moment of decision. I do not believe the American people will be-or should be-content merely to set new records. The main block to full employment is an unrealistically heavy burden of taxation. The time has come to remove...
Despite such accomplishments, neither of the McNamaras is content. The agency still is hammering at interservice jealousies, is seeking standardization of some 100,000 missile parts, is wrestling with the burgeoning problem of spare electronics parts. But supply unification obviously does work-and congressional committees can no longer point to one service that orders $77 million worth of a radio receiver that another service is stocking in huge surplus. As bureaucracy goes, that is progress...
...three-story building on Copenhagen's Pilestraede repose more than two centuries of history-all trapped the moment it was made. From Paris, there is an eyewitness recording of Marie Antoinette's composure on her way to the guillotine: "She seemed content to walk toward the moment which should deliver her from her innumerable sufferings." George Washington's obituary supplies the clinical details-"died in his 67th year from inflammation of the throat after 23 hours of illness"-together with a curious compliment: "As long as he was President of the United States, he never gave...
...Possessed, with its convoluted prose and jawbreaking Latinisms like "solemnization" and "presbyopic," and Thornton Wilder's Our Town, with its fuzzy philosophizing: "There's something way down deep that's eternal about every human being." Writes Macdonald: "This is an eleven-word summary, in form and content, of Midcult. I agree with everything Mr. Wilder says, but I will fight to the death his right to say it this...
...then cart off all his old laundry tickets, racing forms and telephone numbers for a posthumous volume. Anticipating this raggedy sort of immortality, Thurber once poked through his papers and. in The Notebooks of James Thurber, listed seven deterrents to their publication: "persistent illegibility, paucity of material, triviality of content, ambiguity of meaning, facetious approach, preponderance of juvenilia and exasperating abbreviation." In this volume of hitherto uncollected sketches, essays and profiles, only the problems of illegibility and abbreviation have been solved...