Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from two to four years. Under the present and grossly inadequate arrangements, an average Governor spends roughly the first quarter of his administration learning the job and the last quarter trying to get re-elected to it, never leaving more than a year of effective performance. besides eliminating this evil, a four-year term would reduce the strain on the two major political parties and encourage the growth of minor ones...
...consistently neutralist, Kong Le today is as bitterly opposed to Viet Minh intervention in Laos as he had been to the presence of U.S. military advisers last October. Fortnight ago he raged that the Viet Minh were "foreign lackeys" who hoped to make Laos their base to spread their evil policies throughout Southeast Asia...
...Senators were trying (unsuccessfully) to get off, experienced no difficulties. He admitted that Clark could be right about Senators who had been around for two to four years-and this was the most anyone would say for Clark's theory. McIntyre, who was very aware of the good and evil a committee assignment can do back home ("I wanted almost any committee as long as it had anything to do with New Hampshire") was disappointed at first. But now he is right in the middle of the TFX investigation, and jealous...
Breyer almost steals the show. But he doesn't, and one of the main reasons is the equally delightful Nick Bunnin, who plays Amy's bachelor uncle. Bunnin is a perfect dirty old man, complete with leers, roving hands, and a lecherous, evil chuckle...
...Snow in his book seems to take a kind of whimsical, slightly naughty pride in dropping names of people most Americans associate with evil incarnate (something along the "I was the only person ever to interview Mao Tse Tung in his pajamas" line), this only defines his perspective. It does not destroy his objectivity. The great value of Snow's massive collection of personal observation, statistics, anecdotes, and philosophical commentary lies in his intimate acquaintance with the Chinese scene, before and after so to speak. Here is a man who lived in China for about fifteen years before the Revolution...