Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tough Act. With the session drawing to a close, the 90th Congress could be faulted for having broken little fresh ground in the areas of social and ban reform. Nonetheless the 90th did have a tough act to follow. The 89th had all but swept the legislative agenda clean-its successor, with 50 more Republicans in its ranks as a result of the 1966 elections, was billed as the "stop, look and listen" Congress. Despite its determination to consolidate past gains, the 90th could boast some triumphs of its own. The pluses...
...Fresh one-liners...
Silent Hecklers. Buoyed by the response to his Viet Nam speech-including more than $200,000 in fresh contributions-Humphrey plunged into his first round of genuinely successful campaigning since the convention. Ironically, the Vice President drew his largest and friendliest crowds in the South...
...that in view of conspicuous and longstanding government pressure, the decision represented less a display of leniency from above than a spirited show of independence by the lower courts. The duchess still faces the possibility of trial on similar charges in other courts, but the newly established precedent offered fresh cause for optimism. "In Spain," the duchess once said, "there are two professions that are equally risky: the torero's and the writer's." The writer's will seem a little less so from...
Century At Arizona's Prescott College, fresh man orientation is a trifle more strenuous than listening to a series of welcome speeches. Instead, incoming students, both male and female, strap on 40-lb packs and spend three weeks hiking through dry, bramble-strewn canyons and scrambling down 165-ft. cliffs; for three days, they must live on their own, surviving on nothing but water. In addition, they paddle kayaks and canoes for 95 miles around a wind-chopped lake, struggling to keep afloat during cloudbursts and camping overnight on the rocky shore...