Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, at a time when the U.S. is beset with economic woes, an energy crisis, weak leadership and growing self-doubt, Americans can take unalloyed pride in the honors that have been bestowed on its men and women of science. Since 1946, 100 U.S. citizens have won Nobels in the sciences, more than half of the to tal number awarded and far more than America's nearest rivals: Britain, with 34; Germany, 13; the Soviet Union, 8; and France, 5. The record is nearly as impressive in what Thomas Carlyle called the "dismal science." Since the establishment...
...figured our top three could beat out either Yale's or Princeton's," McCurdy said. "The meet rested on whether our second line would be enough to stand up to the others and they really came through. This was our strongest effort as a team all year without a doubt...
...believe any social function has to include booze, but the alcohol is just about the only ingredient to ensure a regular House turnout. Holding a weekly cider hour might go over in Tenafly but in Cambridge, weekly happy hours lubricate even the most trivial house functions. Alcohol is no doubt a social crutch, but it is also one ingredient most people in a House will draw around...
...doubt Connally will continue his polemic on the Israel-oil connection. Connally must be praying for a cold winter so he can remind us how warm we would be with a fresh supply of Arab oil in our furnaces. But resting our hopes for an energy solution on OPEC is illusory and will invite further blackmail from the cartel. The U.S. should reaffirm its commitment to Israel and ignore Connally's easy answer...
Mailer is the last and no doubt the most intelligent participant in the complicated travesty of Gilmore's death. The writer has mobilized a shrewdness to match Gilmore's own punkish daring and jailhouse self-abnegation. Old Aquarius has silenced his bustling, manic, intrusive voice. His prose in this thousand-page trek is a Conestoga of American plain style: it is banal, idiomatic and somehow grainy, like the scenes in 1950s pornographic films in which the characters meet and part like neighborhood dogs, the men never taking their socks...