Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...changing of place at a hundred miles an hour . . . will make us one whit stronger, happier or wiser...
...blackened metal. Total: 28. Three days later the heads of eleven major U.S. airlines were feted in Chicago at a luncheon (scheduled long before the crash) to honor commercial aviation's record for safety. Their statistics proved that IQ49, even including the Dallas crash, could still be one of the scheduled airlines' safest years, with 1.2 deaths per 100 million passenger miles. Every speaker at the luncheon sidestepped the ugly word "crash" until hard-bitten Eddie Rickenbacker, president of Eastern Air Lines, got up, threw away his prepared text and adlibbed: "Crashes are the price...
...One of the troubles of U.S. democracy, Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse had long since decided, is that U.S. citizens are sometimes a little lazy when it comes to working at it-especially if the work involves going to a political meeting and asking a challenging candidate a few sharp questions. Last week Morse set out to make the process really easy. Seated in a little studio in station KERG in Eugene, he invited listening farmers and townspeople to pick up the phone and ask him a question. The questions came with a rush; it kept three people busy...
...one-man quiz show went on for more than an hour and a half before Morse called a halt. Political reporters who heard him thought that he came out on top. Morse is up for re-election next year; so far, his possible opponents, like his questioners, are still out of sight...
...leavening of free enterprise. It was little things that set him thinking. Once he tried to stop some youngsters who were robbing his backyard peach tree, and got a sassy, truthful reply: "Our teacher says that everything in Richland belongs to the Government." A neighbor came home from work one evening to find his carefully nurtured flower bed torn up; that was where the Master Plan decreed that a Government tree should grow. After five months as head of Rich-land's frustrated, ineffectual city council, McDonald discovered that there was no government in Richland except the Atomic Energy...