Word: nadir
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...Many of your readers are grateful for and enriched by your Essays. But in "On War as a Permanent Condition" [Sept. 24], you have reached the nadir of human diplomacy and endeavor...
...troops the U.S. pours into South Viet Nam, the greater the danger of runaway inflation, an in visible enemy that could prove as disastrous to the country as military defeat. Last week, as the fighting reached a new peak (see THE NATION) and the economy neared its nadir, Washington dispatched its top economic trouble-shooter to Saigon: former World Bank Boss Eugene Black, now Lyndon Johnson's special envoy for Southeast Asian development. Black's mission is to expand and refine U.S. aid to South Viet Nam so that the economy will not go under...
...name means "beautiful," but its history has been hard and ugly. The mountainous island of Formosa was devastated by 50 years of Japanese occupation, and it fared little better under the Chinese after they regained control in 1945. Its nadir came in 1950 when Chiang Kai-shek landed on the island with 500,000 beaten soldiers and 2,000,000 refugees from the Communist mainland, straining the unhappy country to the breaking point...
...town, where they swap girls, drugs and stolen motorcycle parts with equal abandon. In between drug-induced stupors, the Angels go on motorcycle-stealing forays, even have a panel truck with a special ramp for loading the stolen machines. Afterward, they may ride off again to seek some new nadir in sordid behavior...
...rage or tears; he delighted in mischief and rushed headlong into many an action that he was later to regret. If he was an Elizabethan in deed and spirit, he was implacably Victorian in his ideals and dedi cation to duty. When he became Prime Minister at the nadir of his nation's fortunes in 1940, he was 65-older than any other Allied or enemy leader. He had held more Cabinet posts than any other Briton in history; he had seen more of war than any of his military advisers; and from a lifetime of scholarship, authorship...