Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what the hell does "emotionally blackmailed into domesticity" mean? Who is the blackmailer? Who is the blackmailed? Is there one woman in the world who doesn't know that caring for your man means laundry, marketing, cooking and great mounds of garbage? It also means not getting yourself worked up over someone "giving you your identity." You either have...
...exciting crowd. Its campaign was not exciting, and its government is not apt to be. It recruits by the yardsticks of competence and loyalty and public acceptance. It is not trying to stir or to amuse. Competence may be the goal, but that doesn't mean politics is overlooked...
...shape a new policy toward Israel. Amid fears of an Israeli invasion of Lebanon's mountainous south, Lebanese debated whether to risk disaster at the hands of the Israelis, or to break all tradition, ally themselves with the Arab cause, and raise a powerful army-which could equally mean disaster...
Powell disavows the label of racist, or racialist as some Britons say. "What I would take 'racialist' to mean is a person who believes in the inherent inferiority of one race of mankind to another, and who acts and speaks in that belief," he explains. "So the answer to the question of whether I am a racialist is no." Moreover, he scoffs at the claims of his critics that his volatile choice of words encourages racist reactions in his listeners. Instead, he argues, "I am a safety valve." Powell has even conceded that immigrants are "no more malevolent...
...current cost for computer time is $165 per hour. Dix expects that the cost will be doubled or tripled. But the increased speed of processing should mean no added cost for the computer user...