Word: dismalness
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SENATE liberals have a lot to answer for. The Senate is the only body of government capable of standing up to the President on the war. Yet with few exceptions, Senators have had dismal records in opposing the war. They passed the Tonkin Gulf Rseolution in 1965 which enabled President Johnson to expand the war. They watered down the Cooper-Church amendment and voted down the Hatfield-McGovern plan. They continue to authorize and appropriate funds for the war with scarcely a whisper of opposition...
With a few exceptions, the record of the social forecasters is even more dismal than that of their brethren in the physical sciences. In 1784 the Marquis de Condorcet, a leading mathematician and philosopher of the Enlightenment, saw a placid present and looked forward to an even more placid future. "The great probability," he said, "is that we will have fewer great changes and fewer large revolutions to expect from the future than from the past. The prevailing spirit of moderation and peace seems to assure us that henceforth wars will be less frequent." Reverse everything and Condorcet would have...
...when unemployment had reached 11.11% of the population. Congress passed Franklin Roosevelt's Social Security Act. It included aid to the unemployed, the old, the blind, and children dependent on adults who could no longer care for even themselves. Unemployment-insurance benefits were, and still are, a dismal way station for many on the road to total dependence. When the temporary payments stop, the only recourse is welfare...
Nixon's relations with the Congress have been dismal. He lashed out at the Senate for refusing to go along with his Southern appointees to the Supreme Court. He campaigned harshly against Democratic candidates in the congressional elections. He allowed his Vice President to attack "permissivists" and "radic-libs" in Congress, apparently including some liberal and moderate Republicans. He personally joined the battle for some of his key programs, such as welfare reform and revenue sharing, only when it was much too late?and then he blistered Congress for not acting on them. Even the new Republican National Chairman, Kansas...
...unidentified caller said the big blast would come at 4 p.m. By 3:30, Harvard police had cleared all three buildings. They combed the buildings, came out empty-handed, and opened the doors once more. Shortly after 5 p.m., life in Lamont was back to its dismal norm...