Word: epical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston, students from Harvard, M.I.T., Brandeis, and even prep schoolers home on vacation helped form an organization called EPIC (Emergency Public Integration Committee), picketed chain stores that practice segregation in the South, engaged Singer Harry Belafonte to kick off a fund-raising drive at Boston Arena...
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, who led the U.S. Navy to an epic Pacific victory in World War II, gracefully navigated an epic birthday celebration, his 75th, in San Francisco. At a testimonial banquet, Old Seadog Nimitz happily wore a double lei of red carnations (a gift from the people of Hawaii), licked frosting from his finger, and modestly ducked a salvo of praise. As for a big birthday party: "I feel the same way about it as the man who bought himself a small boat. His two happiest days were when he bought it and when he sold...
...Epic Tax Dodge. Parkinson's Second Law-"Expenditure rises to meet income" -is scarcely a novel blockhead buster...
Like certain poisons, taxes can be taken only in small doses. When the peacetime national tax passes 10%, people begin to take evasive action (in Parkinson's view, the Book of Exodus is the story of an epic tax dodge). At about 25%, inflation debases the currency. Over 35%, taxes are alms for oblivion; the nation is carting itself to history's junkpile...