Word: impendingness
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On what facts he based the statistics and assertions that he so authoritatively delivered the vice-President did not bother to say. Yet Nixon was not the only public figure playing around with economics last Tuesday. In an attempt to comfort voters worried about rising taxes in a state which...
From high in the dome of the General Assembly Building, bracelets of light beamed down upon the people below. From rows of windowed rooms in the fluted concave walls peered the camera eyes of the world. Against a starkly simple backdrop of the leaf-rimmed United Nations emblem, the Secretary...
Where but at Harvard could a group call itself Tocsin? When spoken, the word carries a medicinal odor, rather than the intended echoes of a warning bell. Yet the group exists and, surprising for the "peace movement," its notes ring clear. Forged during the summer, it is preparing to sound...
Still, in general, it didn't work. Perhaps the candidates weren't distinctive enough, or the issues weren't great enough, or the drama of impending crisis was missing. But somehow, and not for lack of attention, it was an anti-climax.
When it came to the serious job of news gathering, Allen was all business. He was usually the first to arrive for work and the last to leave. At 4:30 one morning in 1949, patrolling an emergency meeting of the territorial legislature, gearing to cover an impending dock strike...