Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Endless Decade. As passed last week, however, the bill only expresses "the sense of the Congress" that there must be a "prompt and orderly withdrawal" of U.S. forces "at the earliest practicable date." Even so, the long controversy over what is normally a routine authorization became an index of deepening congressional disaffection with the war. The prospect of an impending one-candidate election in South Viet Nam became a bitter symbol in the debate. Said New Mexico's Senator Joseph Montoya: "After an endless decade of commitment, this is what we have to show for 55,000 dead American...
...with a mixture of amusement and regret--amusement over his ridiculous distortion of economic realities and regret over the fact that many well-meaning people (especially if they have never worked in a factory) may believe him. Swanson portrays the lot of the white American worker as that of endless drudgery rewarded by measely wages. It may come as a surprise to him to know that the average Ford Motor Co. worker (not executive) earns $16,000 a year. Even with inflation, $16,000 permits a family man to look forward to a lot more than merely getting drunk...
Although many students who take a break from college embark on seemingly endless meandering, many others take on jobs that run heavily to social work, part-time teaching and labor organizing. For instance, Hamilton Fish III, who on the record of his name alone should become a U.S. Congressman (he would be the fifth to do so), is now a Harvard stop-out, working on a campaign to register student voters on campus...
...several months ago, I tried to tell Mr. Kissinger what he should have known anyway: that Minh would not accept his assigned role in a Kissinger-produced, Ellsworth Bunker-directed charade. Minh happens to be an honest man as torn inwardly as his country is torn outwardly by an endless, American-made war. Mr. Kissinger and Ambassador Bunker bear full responsibility for blocking South Vietnamese self-determination and destroying the best chance for peace since the war began...
...that both Democrats and Republicans have proved that Keynesianism is a failure, it's time to try laissez-faire capitalism. Find out what capitalism is; then you won't permit this endless teetering on the brink of disaster...