Word: guttering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...haggling over whether he is going to sit at a round table or a rectangular table, American men are dying to prop up his corrupt regime." Ky's Special Assistant, Dang Huc Khoi, said that the Vice President had no intention of "joining Mr. McGovern in the gutter," but he did note that Ky had been out only once before the reception-to dine with Ambassador Harriman-and that he occupies a house with 36 other people...
...passionate and imprecise discourse on CBS's Face the Nation, he damned the editorial as "the lowest kind of gutter politics." Lawyer Nixon demanded a retraction and threatened a libel suit...
...meekly along behind his master." Though some of his darts were aimed at creditable targets, Nixon's overstated attacks, as during the previous week, encouraged the belief that he was losing his composure at last. When, on a network television program, he accused the New York Times of "gutter politics" for an editorial questioning Spiro Agnew's ethics, he not only seemed to protest too much but actually gave the Times's critique far wider currency than it would otherwise have had (the editorial appeared originally on a Saturday, when circulation is low, and editorial page readership...
...executives, and he chose that platform to stress caritas-charity. As Cushing knows, it is one of the most elusive of virtues. Two days after his speech, he announced that the volume of hate mail he had received as a consequence, some of it "in the language of the gutter," had persuaded him to resign his see at the end of this year instead of his previous target date, August...
...monasteries have been destroyed or converted into barracks and their priceless art treasures carted off to China. Not long ago a rampaging band of Red Guards smashed the sacred 1,300-year-old Avalokiteshvara, the eleven-headed image of the Buddhist god of mercy. It was cast into the gutter behind Lhasa's ravaged Tsukla-khang (Central Temple) amid burning sutras and tantric scriptures. The last 400 of Tibet's former 150,000 monks and lamas, who were kept on as window dressing, have now been stripped of their russet robes. All forms of religious life have been...