Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Waggonner, a former White Citizens' Council leader from the town of Plain Dealing (pop. 1,357), started the campaign as an overwhelming favorite. But Oilman Lyons closed the gap by identifying Waggonner with the national Democratic Party. Cried Lyons: "The national Democratic Party is 80% socialist and 1.000% anti...
"A man who becomes a criminal the minute he goes into business, no matter what he does," Miss Rand said in criticizing the Sherman Anti-Trust laws. They are "unintelligible laws the businessman can't help breaking," and their only meaning is the "penalizing of ability for being ability." They...
"The past," argues John Toland, "must not be forgotten, or even forgiven-only understood." The unforgettable, in his chronicle of the Pacific war's first six months, is the unforgivable: the lunatic optimism of a U.S. totally unprepared for war. What is hard to understand today is how the...
In a world threatened by nuclear destruction, what can I believe? Even "if this earth is blackened to a dry cinder by our massive violence and blinding hate, and if no sign of God appears anywhere, then there still remains in man something that would prefer to face disaster with...
The man most responsible for the experiment is Vice Premier Li Fu-chun, the 61-year-old chairman of Red China's State Planning Commission. Thin, grey-haired, bookish and self-effacing, Li Fu-chun has been in charge of "squeezing" the peasants during the three bitter years, beginning...