Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week Asian tour, only to learn on his return that one of his senior officials had been removed without his consent by Leonard H. Marks, director of the parent United States Information Agency. Daly abruptly announced that he would quit the next day. In reply, Marks struck a regretful note in a warm "Dear lohn" letter, praising Daly for his "dedication and adherence to the highest standards of program integrity...
...having good times here. I do not know many people who are here, and I have doubts about why they are here. Worse, I have doubts about why I am here. (Note the frequency of the word 'here.' The place I am is the salient characteristic of my situation.) It's possible that I'm here to be cool or to meet people or to meet girls (as distinct from people) or to get out of crew or to be arrested...
...gotta dose of id diff, take a whiff, whacha gonna do, put me in the zoo?" Prescription: "Two years at the front will make a man of you, give you a sense of direction, purpose, and leadership skills." (The New York Times is helpful here and notes that an overwhelming majority of those who have been under fire say that they have benefitted from the experience and are more confident because of it. Note, that there is no mention that the poll was administered only to those who survived...
...mother sounds a note of caution in the impassioned duet, Bide Thee, Bubbles, in Brooklyn, but Beverly exits, resolutely waving her contract and singing Addio, West Side Subway...
...week began on a hopeful note that quickly turned ominous. Premier Georges Pompidou and union leaders, after all-night negotiations, agreed early Monday morning to huge and highly inflationary wage settlements in order to end the strike that had idled half of France's 16 million-man industrial work force. Then, at plant after plant, the workers rejected the settlements and called for creation of a popular-front government of Socialists and Communists. It was a shattering blow to De Gaulle. He had been operating on the assumption that he could buy off the workers, whose demands until then...