Word: fours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about pur underprivileged counterparts vandalizing campus buildings, manhandling institution leaders and generally making asses of themselves. It is painful to the thousands of less-pampered "students" here who take their lessons from instructors in black pajamas and sandals; where classrooms are sandbagged, sweaty jungle clearings; where a drink is four tablets in a canteen of warm muddy water; where the Saturday night date is a cold beer and a letter from home; and where the grades are not As, Bs and Cs, but sudden death, crippling wounds or, maybe, victory...
...high bench for 30 of his 70 years. Fannin noted solemnly that Douglas had written an article on folk singing for Avant Garde magazine after the Supreme Court upheld an obscenity conviction against its publisher, Ralph Ginzburg. Douglas, who collected only $350 for the piece, was one of four dissenters to the decision. Declared Thurmond: "Justice Douglas is the next one who must...
...astronaut bound for the moon traverses the 240,000 miles in four days. A letter mailed from Boston to New York may take as much or more time to reach a destination only 229 miles away. In the process, it may be mangled, misdirected or destroyed. And, pace Herodotus, snow, rain, heat, gloom of night and archaic facilities continually slow, if they do not entirely stay, the U.S. mail's appointed rounds. Last week the Administration advanced a sensible if quixotic proposal to make the Post Office an efficient public service. "There is no Democratic or Republican...
...Nixon is anxious to pick ambassadors with particular care, there are more than a few signs that the Administration simply has not been able to find men of the right caliber to fill such important posts. Tokyo was a case in point. After being turned down by at least four men, including John D. Rockefeller III and former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, Nixon selected a little-known career officer, Armin Meyer, who is experienced in Mideast affairs but a newcomer to the Far East. Unlike his two predecessors, who were influential with John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, Meyer...
...disagree with the idea that "the use of four-letter words makes sex dirty" (the figures rise to 42% of the under-30 group, 45% of the college-educated, 41% of those earning $10,000 and over, 46% of professionals...