Word: mortality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed--like his friends F.O. Matthiessen and Kenneth Murdock--part of an age when giants walked in Harvard Yard. He was a giant, and now that we can take the full measure of his life's work, we suddenly feel small and mortal. The feeling is no discredit...
...large wound in the President's head and another smaller wound-from the second of the three shots-in his throat. Clark and eight other doctors worked over him for 40 minutes, but the President was already as dead as though he had fallen on a battlefield in mortal combat. The doctors gave him oxygen, anesthesia, performed a tracheotomy to help breathing; they fed him fluids, gave him blood transfusions, attached an electrocardiograph to record his heartbeat...
...world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life... In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hours of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility; I welcome...
Such delicate indirection is necessary is attempting to arrange an accommodation between two mortal enemies. And it is necessary domestically in a country where politicians cannot ignore public opinion. Whatever re-education that development may eventually warrant, will have to be done carefully. With an election approaching, it would have been safer for the President not to extend an invitation to Tito. It would not have been easy, since Tito was determined to visit Latin America and the UN anyway. Nevertheless, adequate precedent for a Presidential snub certainly existed. A proposed visit in 1957 was cancelled outright when protests unnerved...
...turning to the subject of civil rights, Goldwater cried: "It is not the Republican Party that has bred racial discontent in this land. It is not the Republican Party that has dealt mortal blows to the progress that was being made between men of good will who know that the point of a bayonet can kill the point of a principle. It is not the Republican Party that has played politics with prejudice...