Word: doned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Business has been on the up swing for 95 months - since February 1961, the month after John Kennedy took office at the tail end of a recession. Though the Democratic policymakers certainly cannot claim all the credit for the longest advance in the nation's history, they have done a conspicuous amount of managing and masterminding through their Keynesian New Economics. They leave behind a remarkable record for the Republicans to try and match-as well as many difficult problems for them to try to solve...
...field of foreign relations, I feel sure that his common sense and good judgment will serve the country well." Majority Leader Mike Mansfield called Rogers "an excellent choice." Years ago Nixon said of his friend: "He is more cautious than I am as to what ought to be done in most instances. I will take chances and move aggressively sometimes when he would not. This is good, for I know that he can always see the pitfalls of any course of action...
...well-known" effect of marijuana did not occur. Many policemen say that they can spot a pothead by the dilation of his pupils. Not so, say the researchers. Or if so, the cause is not marijuana but the fact that potheads have done their smoking in dimly lit rooms, where the pupils naturally dilate. The tests also failed to confirm an assumption that pot causes an increase in appetite by lowering the level of blood sugar. The subjects showed no changes in blood sugar, so why marijuana smokers get so hungry remains a mystery...
...when he was drafted into the French army at the age of 27, Ponelle had already done work for every major German opera house as well as the Paris and Vienna operas. Quick and versatile, he has designed everything from a production of Hello, Dolly! to a TV version of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, is now talking to the Metropolitan Opera about a 1970 commission. Ponelle earns about $60,000 a year from his designs, lives with his actress wife Margit and son Pierre, 11, in a two-story villa outside Munich...
...dogs and chickens to formally greet the King of France.) It even has some clever acting. The problem is, the film has no purpose. A movie like this, a cultural spectacular, with respected stars, cleaning up Oscars as it no doubt will, ought to have some reason for being done. The Lion in Winter just brings to mind James Thurber's epigram: "The world is full of such a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings--and you know how happy kings...