Word: forward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...title of his play is not an original one. Long before him, Turgenev had likened the lives of some men to the futile effort, the useless suffering, of a fifth horse hastily harnesses to a coach and four. All its striving, the tether lacerating its back as it strains forward, is pointless...
...takes on blues and oranges and greens, the sea becomes deeper, the moon blazes in the sky. But neither the place nor the rhetOTIC now seemed equal to the distant crises that these people had tried to discuss all week. The wind was rising as Margaret Mead stumped forward in a flowered hat, a long black cape and blue sneakers. Reading out the Declaration of Delos VII ("there is a basic distortion of values in society's failure to allocate resources for the improvement of human settlements"), she looked like a benign bullfrog. As she read, the wind blew...
Within two weeks after set sail the London Sunday Times's round-the-world yacht race last October, Donald Crowhurst's 41 -foot trimaran, the Teign-mouth Electron, had started falling apart. The lacing on the boom snapped, the port forward hatch sprang a leak, and then his generator went out, leaving him without electricity for three days. While his boat disintegrated with the pounding of heavy seas, the sailor's sanity, strained as it was by the loneliness of the solo odyssey and haunted by the specter of fail ure, also began to fall apart...
Cleavages. To an extent, the strategy that is set forward in Phillips' book is an aggrandized version of the 1968 Republican presidential-campaign strategy-though Nixon, in his pre-election speech on new alignments, specifically sought to appeal to both black and white liberals. Phillips acknowledges that he expects to be accused of deepening racial discord and promoting segregationist politics, but, he adds: "I don't say that it should happen, I just say that it does happen. We have always had these ethnic cleavages, despite a lot of effort to pretend that they will go away...
...increasingly involved." In these, the committee recommended, the foreign service should continue a full range of activity. In the "outer area"-meaning most of the rest of the world-its report could find no justification for large information missions or for detailed political reporting other than "an occasional forward-looking assessment of a general 'whither Barataria' nature." Should the committee's recommendations be accepted, most of the former colonies that imperial viceroys once bestrode will become threadbare outposts of salesmanship diplomacy...