Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps the strangest thing about the 1968 House races was that both parties ran scared. In private conversations, Democratic and Republican incumbents alike suspected that they would not be seeing a lot of their old friends when the 91st convened. But if the House contests proved anything at all, it was that the American voter was considerably less disgruntled with the state of the union than had been thought?or at least that he was not ready to blame his representatives in Congress...
...extremity, such explosive emotions can drive frustrated losers to the crime of "magnacide" (killing somebody big). Lee Harvey Oswald, the archetypal U.S. assassin, almost certainly murdered John F. Kennedy partly to borrow for himself the luster of a glamorous winner. The Oswalds are rare. Still, Americans do need a lot more help in coping with the problems of losing...
Without the American passion for winning, the U.S. would clearly be a far less dynamic place. Men should reach beyond their grasp; it is inconceivable that Negroes, for example, should spend another 300 years or even 300 days accepting their lot as losers. Still, the U S ought to be far less grim about losing...
...skiers, snow is white gold. Until it falls, they are a frustrated lot, all booted up, geared, waxed, with nowhere to go. Some skiers have tried to get in condition early by skiing on sand, pine needles or hay ? all far from satisfactory...
...homes a year would sharply increase the already serious inflation in construction costs. Land and materials prices have jumped sharply, and a severe shortage of carpenters, plumbers, electricians and bricklayers has led to soaring wage rates in many cities. All kinds of external pressures, from big-lot zoning to archaic building codes (which are often kept restrictive by local labor and political pressures), are making it increasingly difficult to erect low-cost housing...