Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billing himself as Reagan's right-hand man, Bush managed to capture the Republican nomination. Capturing the support of the American electorate will be a little harder...
...social engineering carries with it certain risks and costs. But the alternative solutions to today's teen problems, which emphasize the inculcation of morality and responsibility, rely on abstractions that are even less subject to human control and, in any case, do not deal directly with the issues at hand...
...something about the spoken word. The best speaker I heard in my life was Reinhold Niebuhr, the American theologian and philosopher. I first heard him at Friends' House, London, in July 1946. He spoke for an hour without notes, and he had us in the hollow of his hand. One of his themes was the potential goodness of individual man, and the potential wickedness of collective man. An individual man could become a saint, but collective man was a tough proposition. He broke the flow of his talk only once, and that was to say to the chairman, "Must...
...because he had said that Cry, the Beloved < Country was the only Christian novel that he was ever able to read. I heard him again in 1955, at the Jubilee of Kent School, Connecticut. He had had a stroke, and delivered his paper sitting down, hiding his powerless left hand under his right. His audience was deeply affected, for they were witnessing a triumph of mind (or soul) over matter. And the mind was as clear as ever...
...five black-robed judges walked slowly to the podium and brought the proceedings to order. The prosecutor's opening statement set forth an explosive agenda: the alleged complicity of Austrian President Kurt Waldheim in Nazi war crimes during World War II. "I do not represent that his is the hand that holds the smoking pistol," said the attorney. "War crimes were committed by those men whom Waldheim served. But there will be no doubt, I submit, in your minds that Waldheim did more than make coffee for these men. His acts facilitated their crimes...