Word: impendingness
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Facing demands for Watergate-related White House evidence on three fronts, President Nixon last week hung tough, adamant and defiant. He flouted the constitutionally sanctioned impeachment process by informing the House Judiciary Committee that he will ignore all pending and future subpoenas for White House tapes and documents. He directed...
Degler shows clearly that any Southern opposition to slavery before the War--like the insurgency of the Southern Populists, who forged a brief political alliance between poor whites and blacks--was fragile. Appeals to white supremacy could and did tap lurking Southern white fears that interracial cooperation could lead directly...
NOW THAT most Americans find their service stations open again at night and on weekends, public interest in the world energy situation has dwindled to self-centered nostalgia for the days of cheap energy and Sunday drives. Meanwhile, massmedia editors and anchormen have chosen to ignore an impending world famine...
Vrba submitted an extensive and highly detailed report on Auschwitz to Zionist leaders in Slovakia and Hungary and implored them to warn the nearly one million Jews in the two countries of their impending destruction. But--in one of the great tragedies of the Second World War and one of...
But instead of pursing the nature of these impending decisions, Gilman offered as a solution only a vague and hedging appeal to the Great American Tradition of courage and fortitude.