Word: impendingness
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For the Voters. John Love, Republican Governor of Colorado, commented cautiously: "I do not think such a marriage will add to Mr. Rockefeller's availability for the presidential nomination." A top Washington Republican, long favorable to Rocky's candidacy, said: "It will finish him as far as 1964...
Langer also outlined the "polarization of attitutes among the population," as some people became fanatically pious engaging in flagellation, magic or witchcraft while others "gave themselves up to drunkeness and debauchery." He quoted a medieval source which spoke of "drunkards and whoremongers following their lasts with the sword of the...
John William Ward, in The Reporter, describes the book as a latter- day "jeremiad," that first peculiarly American literary form wherein Puritan reverends took their congregations to task for real--or imagined--sinfulness. His description of this aspect of the book is particularly apt. William James defined the uneasiness that...
The real tragedy of the aid-to-education fight, however, is not the impending defeat of the omnibus bill, but the President's refusal ever to concede it a chance of victory. Faced with a continuing national crisis in education, he has consistently eschewed the one approach which might prod...
To the bedside of Princess, Michiko, 28, in the Imperial Household/Hospital came Japanese Crown Prince Akihito, 29, bearing a potted vermilion orchid, her favorite flower. The occasion was not a happy one. For reasons of health, said Palace spokesmen, "at signs of impending miscarriage," the Princess had been surgically aborted...