Word: hards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great ends; that restless, nervous energy; and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom." All this could be applied to causes even more arduous-and at least as worthy-as reaching the moon. But it can happen only with the help of two forces that are extremely hard to bring into play, and there is no evidence as yet that they are being marshaled. They are national leadership and national will...
...were less convinced that the Senator had been damaged beyond repair. The situation has been widely compared with Richard Nixon's own comeback from defeat and eclipse?although the cases are entirely different, since Nixon has never been involved in a personal tragedy of such significance. Some years of hard work and impeccable behavior might well restore Kennedy's chances in public life. Some political observers believe that his resignation from the Senate?even if he is overwhelmingly supported by the Massachusetts public?would only help that process by demonstrating his sincere contrition. " 'Never' is a long time," said...
...long after Eagle's successful touchdown, the Soviet space vehicle Luna 15 met with a less fortunate fate. The unmanned ship dropped from her lunar orbit and headed for the moon's surface. Telemetered data picked up by Western observatories indicated that Luna had hit too hard to survive. To most space experts, the failure was one more proof that the Russians are months if not years behind the U.S. in space technology...
...isolation: for participating in the same struggle eighteen students have been thrown out of the University, numerous others admonished, one student sentenced to a year in jail, and a number of teaching fellows, and another faculty member have had their jobs threatened. It is necessary to fight back hard against this attempted intimidation and repression--which is aimed not so much at a few individuals, but rather at the thousands of students at Harvard who during the struggle this spring came to the realization that ROTC should be abolished and Harvard expansion stopped...
...feel for them so much; whatever it is, it works. As Potter is drunkenly speeding down the Thruway to get Brubaker to kennedy for the flight with Catherine to Paris, you find yourself whispering, "Make it, man! Oh please let him make it!" I hadn't rooted so hard for the good guys since the Yale game...