Word: enigma
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Tears of Joy. What it might mean to China's friends or China's neighbors-from Moscow to Washington-was a matter of grave concern. The world's oldest continuous civilization has al ways proved an enigma to the rest of the world. In its current hysteria, China remains a puzzlement. The pieces of the puzzle began to fall into place last week in the nation's streets...
...author finds Johnson "a hard man to measure, an enigma, a mass of contradictions." He is "titanic and petty, courtly and crude, an authentic political genius and a cornball." With all that, "more than most men, his performance must be looked at in the main." What comes through almost reluctantly in this often critical book is that in the foreign policy areas that really count, L.B.J. has in the main acted with courage and good judgment...
...easy to make changes," sighed Louisiana's Democratic Congressman F. Edward Hébert. "But what changes?" As the House Armed Services Committee ended the first phase of its inquiry into the draft last week, that enigma was as far as ever from solution...
...Robinson with Brown's Win Anakawa and two Navy runners are the class of the sprint field. Jeff Huvelle is among a pack of quarter-milers who have turned in times in the vicinity of 48.5, and Dave McKeivey might also get a place in the 440. An enigma in the shorter races in Cornell's Bill Bruckel, who could win any two of the three, and might even try to triple...
...with the slight redundancy, perhaps 20 percent, of musical performances. He should have rigged his example to support his later (equally unfounded) conclusions. There is a continuing confusion between physical frequency and pitch. Why he numbered some of his figures and not others is a mystery wrapped in an enigma. His index would be laughably inadequate if it were not so unlikely that anyone would ever want...