Word: myriad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Viet Nam war finally ends, the history of the myriad unofficial attempts to end it will make a fascinating study in well-intentioned futility. Scores of private peacemakers have visited Hanoi-Italian ex-mayors and Mexican philosophers, French diplomats and Canadian clerics, professors and politicians-and practically all have gone away with tantalizingly vague reports of a brand new peace feeler. Scores of others have worked up their own formulas for peace and reacted bitterly when nobody seemed interested in buying them. Last week two more episodes in this strange saga of diplomatic dilettantism came to light...
...have once again exposed another American folly, that of the "numbers game." As one who works in research, I am aware that the myriad ways in which statistics can lie is directly proportional to the studies employing them. RICHARD J. HAMERSMA East Lansing, Mich...
...freedom is the more radical for the single girl. Because of her increased economic competence and society's more permissive moral standards, today's swinging single is free in a myriad of ways her mother never dreamed of-freer morally from the restraints of home and the strictures of religion, freer economically from dependence on family allowance, freer geographically from the confines of the home town, and freer sexually through her increased security against unwanted pregnancy. Today's maiden is often assumed to be less concerned with being chaste than being chased-and caught, perhaps often-before...
Either way, Congress, refracting the tax bill with myriad political and economic considerations, is unlikely to swallow the President's program whole. It will be a cold day in Washington, probably in November, before the bill -or whatever remains of it-emerges from Congress...
...Winter felt obliged to declare: "As a fifth-generation Mississippian whose grandfather rode with General Forrest, I was born a segregationist and raised a segregationist. I have always defended this position. I defend it now." Nonetheless, he has also managed to steer the debate toward Mississippi's myriad shortcomings-which include the nation's lowest per capita income ($1,751 v. a national average...