Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your excellent story on Bob Hope, one of the world's greatest humanitarians, did not mention that for the past nine years he has served as honorary national chairman of the National Parkinson Foundation. He has been a staunch supporter in our continuing quest for the cause of, and cure of, Parkinson's disease. Not content with giving us his valuable time and talent, Bob has for a number of years given us an annual personal check for $10,000. When the big breakthrough comes through research on Parkinson's disease, as surely it will...
...Your Essay on the budget lists "the $4.6 billion public-works bill for fiscal 1968" as a target for cutting [Dec. 8]. Unfortunately, you followed the practice of most American news media in failing to mention that more than $2.5 billion of that total is the budget for the Atomic Energy Commission. While not disputing that items in the public-works section of the bill could be cut, I feel journalistic accuracy should reflect the dual nature of the Public Works and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriation Bill. You might wish to express your opinion on whether the AEC portion should...
...shortest road to settlement might lie within South Viet Nam itself-and that the two parties to travel it first should not be Washington and Hanoi but the Saigon government and the rebel Viet Cong. The trouble was that the South Vietnamese President and his colleagues -not to mention the Viet Cong-seemed reluctant to make the trip...
...these people want to leave? Many of those who have applied to leave will talk quite freely about their reasons for going. Some, like the lady who told me that she wanted "liberty," mention political pressures for revolutionary uniformity in Cuba. Split families yearn to be reunited. But more often, Cubans will mention food and consumer goods. Food is very sparingly rationed on the island now, and the government is unwilling to devote its scanty resources to luxury consumer goods while the pressing need for rural development remains...
Aristophanes worships the risque; his play is loaded with the kind of jokes you imagine Avatar fiends or prep school boys tell each other. Any innocent mention of rising, the playwright apparently believes, deserves a comeback with the wickedest innuendoes...