Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard to imagine a more bizarre example of justice distorted than the action brought against IBM by the U.S. Government [Jan. 24]. Although the case is not unique in the history of antitrust suits, it serves to dramatize the subtle but steady deterioration of the notion that ability and competence are a blessing, not a curse...
...White House is the Nixons' home, and like all first families they have quickly put their brand on it. White tie is back for formal occasions. Hard liquor was nowhere to be found at last week's diplomatic reception; the guests were served champagne and church-social punch. During the past eight years, the White House was a slightly manic mansion, with friends, newsmen, relatives, and buddies from old political and real wars bustling in and out. Among the Nixons' guests during their first fortnight were a few personal friends of long standing, such as J. Edgar...
...October, just before the presidential elections. "Unfortunately," Nixon later wrote in Six Crises, "Arthur Burns turned out to be a good prophet. The bottom of the 1960 dip did come in October. All the speeches, television broadcasts and precinct work in the world could not counteract that one hard fact...
...moment, Overview is little more than a grand concept. Whether or not it will ever work is a moot point. But it is hard to disagree with the basic Overview argument that without practical visionary planning, both preventive and prescient, the future will be shaped by default...
Gorming has its full terminology. Pie is charlie brown because the latter had to have pie at every meal. Dom is chicken, after the Dominique, a particular breed. Broadie is a cow or a steak. Gano is the name of a very hard kind of apple they used to grow in the valley and, by extension, Boontling for all apples. Bacon is bowrp (a contraction of boar pig), eggs are easters, as in "If I don't shy to the sluggin' region [sleeping place] soon, I may as well set me a jeffer and gorm bowrp and casters...