Word: eventfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was only one major gaffe in an otherwise flawlessly executed tour. The White House released the text of an effusive arrival statement of praise for Charles de Gaulle, which was bannered in advance by the French press. In the event, however, Nixon delivered only a watered-down edition of the speech. The overblown first version seemed to negate Nixon's carefully cultivated neutrality in intra-European affairs; by awkwardly retracting it, he ran the opposite risk of offending De Gaulle and the French. He saved the situation somewhat by praising De Gaulle warmly in a subsequent toast...
...trouble with such blunt accuracy is that it may interfere with placing an event in perspective if the obscenities shock readers sufficiently to obscure the rest of the story. At the same time, as barriers to obscenity are lowered, the words will inevitably be robbed of their shock value. If Charles de Gaulle were regularly quoted using foul language, who would have understood the depth of his rage when he used the term chienlit (literally, "crap in bed") in referring to last spring's student-worker uprising? "As one who savors a good obscenity," says Roy M. Fisher, editor...
...determining event was the threemeter dive, which featured a battle between the two best divers in the league--Mike Brown of Dartmouth and Harvard's Bill Murphy. Brown beat Murphy last year and, earlier yesterday, had edged him in the one-meter competition...
...next event, the 50-free, Cahalan and Bragg sped to a sweep, ahead of the Indians' excellent sprinters. This finish brought the crowd to its feet and put Harvard in front...
...quantitatively different consumer unit. And Military Fare, which superficially appears to be the same as Youth Fare, is authorized by statute and by judicial decision because it contributes to the National Defense by raising the morale of out troops--but the government could probably demand it legally in any event...