Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...probably the greatest satisfaction is writing about unusual people who find themselves involved in some extraordinary situation-or see to it that they are so involved. As this week's Essay on "The Sad State of Eccentricity" points out, the grand old style of nonconformity has fallen on hard times. Still, no week passes in which journalism is not brightened by the views, habits and idiosyncrasies of people who are willing to question conventional wisdom...
...continued Communist attacks in South Viet Nam forced him to confront his first foreign-policy crisis as President. It not only undercut his attempts to reassure Europeans that the U.S. is not preoccupied with Southeast Asia, but jeopardized the climate of calm and unity that he had worked so hard to create...
...will help not one bit for Jensen or the HER editorial board to protest that they did not intend for Jensen's article to be used in this way. For in addition to superiority in performing conceptual cluster tricks on test sheets, the hard line segregationist is also vastly superior in his ability to bury qualifying phrases and demurrers and in his ability to distort and slant facts and batter his undereducated clientele into a complete state of hysteria where race is concerned...
...close and got a good look at his mug. I had seen that face so many times before--hard, bitter, scurvy--all those things. I had seen his face on the bodies of night-time burglars who had been in prison for at least ten years. Robert Kennedy has been in some prison of his character for a long time...
Kinasewich praised Chris Gurry, Harvard's second member of the ECAC all-stars, for hard checking on defense and his great ability to pick up the puck and rush out of his zone. He is very offense-conscious and has a tremendous lateral motion, Kinasewich said...