Word: damnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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I have no objection to a short prayer for Francis Powers, as some have suggested, but doesn't it seem more important for us to pray for a clearer national direction and a more genuine educational system, so that technicians like Powers might learn more than simply which buttons...
New York Post scored Quill's "the public be damned" attitude. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "It is now evident that Quill, regarded by New Yorkers as purely a local nuisance, is a national nuisance."
It began as an air raid-keening sirens, baleful searchlights, great gouts of tracer bullets spewing into the treacherous sky. But few bombs fell. Overhead, the British planes merely circled and then fled. What were those damned English up to?
The President himself called for a meeting of the United Nations' 82-member Disarmament Commission to counter last month's flagrant Soviet walkout from disarmament talks. But the chief tough talker was Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, who sharply answered the Soviet threat...
Alexander was equally brusque with Lumumba. On one occasion, Lumumba launched a 4-hour harangue in which he damned the United Nations as "a bunch of imperialists." When it was over, Alexander smiled coldly, said, "Mr. Premier, an imperialist bids you good night," and stalked from Lumumba's presence...