Word: lacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even Clint Anderson had little hope of defeating Strauss-but he determined that it would not be for lack of trying. Not himself a member of the Commerce Committee, he was notably present during most of the long, disputatious hearings. Appearing as a witness armed with a 42-page attack, Anderson accused Strauss of practicing "deception," telling "unqualified falsehoods" and creating "myths" about his achievements. Having hurled his thunderbolts, Anderson took a seat close behind Wyoming's Gale McGee, a committee member, fed him information and questions to use against Strauss. A liberal with an instinctive dislike for Hoover...
...publics of Western Europe and the U.S., the ritual dance at Geneva had become a deadly bore. Dwight Eisenhower said last week that the Geneva talks had not yet made enough progress to justify a summit conference. Nikita Khrushchev was just as candid about the lack of progress as he arrived home from a quick tour of two of the most lackluster outposts of his empire, Albania and Hungary. He was still talking darkly of establishing rocket bases in Albania and Bulgaria if Italy and Greece went through with their plans to accept U.S. missiles...
...Make drastic decreases in government spending. (Actually, many construction projects have already been stopped for lack of money to meet the payroll...
...leave the world, Santayana wrote, once we know what it is. If Santayana was suggesting a satiety of the mind, André Gide, in his 81st year, was more keenly aware of a flagging of the senses. He had discovered a word from the Greek for it, anorexia (lack of appetite), but he added: "I find it hard to console myself for not knowing Greek...
...regrets in So Be It, his gentle goodbye to life. He regretted neither his homosexuality nor his lack of religious faith; indeed he took delight in flaunting both to the end. He reflected on everything from old age (it puzzled him) to shaggy-dog stories (they made him laugh) to Moliére and Cervantes (they did not make him laugh...