Word: onus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, President Kennedy again put Russia's Nikita Khrushchev on the defensive. Every nation acknowledges the right of all nations to take the necessary steps to defend themselves. If, in the nature of modern weapons, there is a special onus attached to preparing a nuclear defense, then the Russians-who cheated upon and broke the three-year moratorium-now had a new opportunity to decide whether the U.S. goes ahead with its tests. A maneuver "strongly resembling blackmail," cried the Russian news agency Tass. The Soviet Union declared that it had no intention of accepting Western proposals...
...faces an uphill fight against Incumbent Democratic Governor John Swainson in the fall. Yet many a politician and pundit were already measuring him for 1964, and the reasons were plain enough. The Republicans have three much bigger names than Romney, but each carries some weighty liabilities. Nixon bears the onus of his 1960 defeat; he has his hands full this year in his campaign to be Governor of California, and he has pledged that if elected he will serve out his full four-year term. Marital and home-state political problems have piled up on Nelson Rockefeller; Rocky has never...
...about to enter his news conference last week. President Kennedy heard that the Rules Committee had voted 9 to 6 against the bill. In his first words to reporters he placed the whole political onus on the Republicans, ignoring the key part that the Southern Democrats had played in the defeat. "I am somewhat astonished,'' he said, "at the Republican leadership, which opposed this bill. I had gotten the impression that they shared our concern for more effective management and responsibility of the problems of two-thirds of our population who live in cities...
...From Sidecars. Lancashire-born Sir William, who started out as a maker of motorcycle sidecars, founded the Swallow Coachbuilding Co. Ltd. in 1928 to build custom bodies for Standard's chassis, called his car the Standard Swallow (and quickly shortened it to simply the "S.S."). To avoid the onus the Nazis had given to the initials SS, Lyons in 1945 changed the company's name to Jaguar. Production has risen from 250 a week in 1950 to the current clip of about 530, and Jaguar's sales to the U.S. have jumped from...
Kennedy's speech was welcomed even by the usually critical Indians. Wrote the New Delhi Indian Express: "President Kennedy has effectively placed the onus of responsibility for a shooting war on the Soviet Union by displaying courage, vision and flexibility." But some critics felt that the President had at times overstated his vision. In his eagerness to defend the U.N., he clearly exaggerated when he said that "in the development of this organization rests the only true alternative to war." Although he ringingly announced U.S. determination to fight for the essentials of its Berlin position, some also felt that...