Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contorted his gangling 6-ft. 4½-in. frame and made him dependent on metal crutches or a wheelchair, Christian Herter was not one for retirement. When he died at 71 of a pulmonary embolism in his Washington home, he was still striving for international agreement-this time to lower tariffs-as the President's Special Representative for Trade Negotiations. That effort, too, proved endlessly frustrating...
...Relief Administration in Europe and the Commerce Department in Washington before going back to Boston to write and lecture in support of internationalism. In 1930, he won his first election to the state legislature-he was never to lose in a total of 13 contests-and served in the lower house for six terms, two of them as speaker. Then came ten years in the U.S. House and four in the Governor's mansion. As Governor, Herter won a reputation for clean, efficient, economical rule...
...split in experience may have serious consequences, for, as a result of the student deferment and mental-physical standards, the selective service now forces a particular group of young people--the lower-middle class--to bear a disproportionate share of the burden. The deferment weeds out those who do not have the resources--mental, material, and motivational--to climb the dizzying ladder to "higher" education. The physical and intelligence criteria select out much of the lower class. As the Task Force on Manpower Conservation showed in its report One-Third of a Nation, at least a fifth of those rejected...
...already darlings of the Great Society, can press for urban renewal and massive income transfer programs, such as the negative income tax, particularly after defense spending is reduced. But the veterans will find their experience in the arts of warfare of little use in peacetime. Coming disproportionately from the lower middle class, they must return to a society that is grateful for their service, but eager to forget the war. Embittered and disillusioned by a negotiated peace that cannot possibly offer total victory, they must compete in an economy that has grown more and more competitive and demanding; contend with...
Waldinger restored the lead at 15:48 as he skated out from the right boards and pinpointed the puck into the goal's lower left corner...