Word: lessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...determined in the Atlantic area." His constant theme in criticizing the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations' approach to the Atlantic Alliance was that they operated from insufficient understanding and flexibility. In his view, once the Marshall Plan had served its purpose and NATO was firmly established, American predominance made less and less sense. Washington's master plans for Western Europe became increasingly irrelevant. Why should not Charles de Gaulle pursue his own vision of a European third force? Why should the military commander of NATO always be an American? For Kissinger, who believes that the age of superpowers is drawing...
...Brown, but no amount of apologizing could gainsay the fact that he had run on a pledge to keep the cost of government down. Instead, it has gone steadily up; next year's spending will increase 3.9% to $6.2 billion (though the budget will be smaller than that of less populous New York...
Some of the recommended new dates on the calendar are reserved for more recent, less radical figures: John Keble, one of the brightest lights of the 19th century Anglican resurgence known as the Oxford Movement, and David Livingstone, 19th century medical missionary who incidentally helped to open up the continent of Africa. Perhaps most surprising in the ecumenical list is the inclusion of two prominent figures from the Catholic Counter-Reformation: St. Francis Xavier, the great Jesuit missionary to India and Japan, and St. Francis de Sales-who on the proposed list is generously allowed to share a commemoration...
Sweaty Palms. Beyond sociological reasons lie the personal fears, guilt and shame of the victim himself. Police rarely hear from the businessman who has been robbed by a prostitute. They are even less likely to get a complaint from the hoodlum who has been threatened by the Mafia or the teen-ager who has paid for pot and got oregano instead. In instances of child molesting, some parents are either too ashamed themselves to go to the police or want to spare their youngsters further embarrassment...
...tend to think the early bird really does catch the worm. Slugabeds grumble that the sunny risers are worms themselves. For Ben Franklin and puritanical believers in his maxims, to be earlier than thou is virtually to be holier. But early-morning surly birds dispute them. After all, no less an American culture hero than Robert Frost milked his cows at midnight because he could not be bothered to get up and do it at sunrise. These days, researchers are slowly waking up to waking...