Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nigeria must disintegrate, then in the name of God, let the operation be short and painless," mourned President Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe in a nationwide radio broadcast, calling on politicians to "summon a round-table conference to decide how our national assets should be divided." Continued Zik: "Should the politicians fail to heed this warning, then I venture the prediction that the experience of the Congo will be child's play if it ever comes our turn to play such a tragic role...
...grades-are-everything competition. The first major school to act is California Institute of Technology, which last week eliminated "freshman grades. Caltech's ferociously smart freshmen will still take exams and do graded homework assignments, but at the end of the freshman year students will simply pass or fail. With grades "unattainable," Faculty Chairman Ernest H. Swift hopes that freshmen "will find it easier to concentrate on the content of their course. This, in turn, may enable them to make more sensible choices as to the investment of their time and energy...
...only an abstraction but also an invitation to death and destruction. Now, against their will, these people have be come the pawns in an ideological struggle between the great powers. It is no wonder that, contrary to Buddhist teachings, violence erupted in this atmosphere of frustration and fear. We fail to see that Asiatics dislike our disregard for their ancient cultures. Expecting them to adopt our attitudes and political institutions can only lead to regression, which may violently alter the course of history...
Time to Give Up Gandhi. Non-Westerners, writes Sinai, fail to understand that the West's envied economic progress is not a matter of technology alone. It rests on character traits developed over centuries of Western history: an assertive individualism; a secure, well defined ego; a Faustian drive to learn and master...
NIXON: You know, Barry, I find it difficult to phrase this quite the way I want to, and I know that words often fail us at times like this. I have the greatest respect for you, and for Peggy too, and I hope you'll come over soon and have dinner with Pat and me. But--and of course there are many different points of view, of which mine is only one--you really got clobbered, didn...