Word: dis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paisner takes two paragraphs and part of the headline to describe Mr. Welch's estimation of General Edwin Walker without mentioning the one point which Mr. Welch made most emphatically: namely, that he was in total dis-agreement with General Walker's actions in Mississippi--whatever they actually were, and, in fact, that he, Mr. Welch, had not approved of anything General Walker had done since his retirement from the Army. The article also neglects to mention the outbursts of spontaneous applause that interrupted Mr. Welch on three or four occasions...
...outcome was a great relief to the many Americans who found the deal repugnant. But President Kennedy was dis appointed. The prisoners weighed on his conscience: they had undertaken their invasion under his sponsorship, and his decision not to support them with U.S. air cover doomed whatever prospects for success they might have had. So the President undertook a second ransom effort, with less fanfare, working through the Cuban Families Committee-"Project X." the White House called...
...such invective is a dis appearing art in U.S. politics. This, to connoisseurs, is a pity. But it is being revived with a vengeance in Pennsylvania, where political partisanship runs deep and the stakes are immense...
According to friends. Lee and Stash wanted it annulled to placate Stash's devoutly Catholic father, Prince Janusz Radziwill, 82, who is said to have dis approved of their civil marriage...
...system has at last been overthrown by the courts. In years past, state elections in Georgia were decided not on popular votes but on a complex system where by each county was permitted so many unit votes in the ballot box. Invariably, this gave the rural counties a hugely dis proportionate balance of power against the populous areas; Griffin himself, for example, was elected in 1954 on only 36% of the popular vote...