Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frustration has sometimes seemed to exceed progress. Rockefeller's term started with a bitter aftertaste of Faubus' twelve-year reign. The Democratic legislature-there are only three Republicans, v. 132 Democrats, in the two houses-confirmed 93 of Faubus' lame-duck appointments to state agencies, then attempted to block Rockefeller's nominees. The Governor had to go to court to make good an appointment to the public service commission. Like Arkansas Razorbacks crunching opposition ball carriers, the legislators downed one Rockefeller proposal after another: an audit of the corruption-tainted highway department, reform of jury selection...
...Under his agreement with Columbia, which gives Strickman less than 10% of licensing revenues, the filter will be made available to any cigarette company, provided that the filtered smoke contains no more than 10 milligrams of tar (a cancer agent) per cigarette-a limit that some U.S. brands presently exceed, even in tests with the new filter. "This," says Dr. Cushman Haagensen, a top cancer researcher, "is an educated guess at the relative safety level...
...federal ruling struck down that regulation, but other rules affecting children remain. Currently under attack is Georgia's "employable mothers" law, which allows counties to cut Negro mothers off the family-aid rolls whenever farmers need $2.50-a-day crop pickers. In 21 states, grants may not exceed a stated maximum no matter how many children a family has. Excess children must live in other homes or go hungry...
Happy To Be Home. But Bogunovic's reports began to exceed the regime's tolerance. No longer called "Comrade" by the Chinese, he was ominously addressed as "Mister." When he covered a demonstration in front of the Soviet embassy, Red Guardsmen surrounded his car. "They began to bang on the windows," he recalls, "and shake the car violently, screaming and shouting. It was a frightening experience." When he lodged a protest with the Foreign Ministry, he got back a scathing denunciation of his "revisionist" views...
...college students are not permitted and they should not be permitted--to avoid eventual liability for military service, the supply of eligible young men will exceed the military demand for them about as much as if nobody were deferred. Thus the need remains for a randomized selection process to determine who shall serve...