Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper," he wrote. "...that man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them: inasmuch as he knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors." This was no run-of-the-mill vice president, but Thomas Jefferson, better known and more often remembered for his stated preference for newspapers without government over government without newspapers...
...board to find out whether Berrigan's award should stand. With only 20 replies received so far, the results are inconclusive. Not, however, as far as Berrigan is concerned. Decrying what he called "a degrading consensus game," Berrigan refused the prize. His refusal, he said, "brings me somewhat nearer to the spirit of Gandhi; it is not a time for reward, but a time for labor...
Richard Nixon stands nearer his own resignation or impeachment than ever before. How near is the unanswerable question. But the sense of the men in the White House that they have now resolved part of their tortuous problem is false. It is one of those singular illusions that result from their isolation...
...aerial barrage, the Khmer insurgents continue to gain ground-battering Lon Nol's forces at will. Deftly applying pressure first on one major highway leading to the capital and then switching to another, the insurgents have kept the government's forces off balance. In fighting creeping ever nearer to Phnom-Penh, the rebels have inflicted 800 to 1,200 casualties weekly upon government troops. The heavy casualties have diluted Lon Nol's units; the four battalions guarding the bridge at Prek Ho now each contain about 120 men, instead of their normal strength of at least...
...self-interest alone, Wicker said, the relatively privileged members of his Harvard audience ought to "stand in the years to come for something nearer to equality--equality in material things--something nearer to equality for the poor, and something closer than what we have now, in my judgment, to individual liberty and justice for all of us," for this is what would be required to "alleviate many of the social tensions that have plagued our lives in recent years...