Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doubt that anyone who does not own a gun can be any more outraged at the tragic assassination of Senator Kennedy than are the many responsible citizens who happen to be sportsmen and gun owners [June 21]. I have seen firearms used for good (yes, even against fellow man), as well as for evil; but I have not as yet laid blame (or credit) to the gun. It is interesting to ponder if the emotion of the moment will bring on a joust with windmills, and whether the result will provide a catharsis for the guilt complex of a nation...
...Kind of Victory. Still, it was pretty thin fare for a crusade that set for itself no less a task than the conquest of poverty. No doubt the goals were too ambitious. Between the exaggerated aims set forth in overblown speeches by the campaign's leaders and a hardening attitude on the part of Congress, there was no middle ground, and disappointment was the inevitable result...
...early '60s. They will survey the cliches of this period-the alienation bit, the under-30 thing, the unromantic sex kick-and will realize that no matter how laughable, these stereotypes, too, reflect a troubled reality. The hippie scene and the identity crisis will no doubt someday assume an air of innocence and cherished worth along with the Front Porch, the Soda Fountain and the Family, which now warm the nostalgia of late-night retrospection. Hollywood, which liked to see itself as Everyman's Scheherazade, has also been his Cassandra-the two roles are inseparable...
...court carefully avoided ruling on the constitutionality of the law, but it left little doubt about its opinion. It cited Griswold v. Connecticut, a 1965 Supreme Court decision holding that married couples cannot be prosecuted for using birth-control devices because there is a substantial right to marital privacy, "The import of the Griswold decision," said the Seventh Circuit, "is that private, consensual, marital relations are protected from regulation by the state...
...instinctively wary of "committees and boards and shareholders." Although he delegated responsibility for day-to-day operations to the top men in his five divisions, there was never the slightest doubt about who was boss. "If you ever have two men who can run your business," he once advised, "you should open another business." As his enterprise grew, Ahmanson more and more tended to run it from a distance. After doctors recommended thrice-daily swims when he suffered a heart attack eleven years ago, Ahmanson kept office hours close to the pool at his Tudor mansion in suburban Los Angeles...