Word: onwardness
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...body was placed on a caisson Sunday afternoon and moved to the Capitol, where it lay in state on the same black-draped catafalque that supported the body of Abraham Lincoln. Eisenhower's casket was then returned to the cathedral for the funeral. After the benediction, everyone sang Onward Christian Soldiers.Monday evening, the coffin left Washington's Union Station, aboard a special train carrying only family and friends, for the 1,379-mile, 30-hour trip to Abilene, Kans., where Eisenhower grew up and where he chose to be buried...
After studying the evolution of Cabinets from George Washington's first appointees onward, Political Scientist Richard F. Fenno Jr. wrote: "The Cabinet is the show window of the Administration, and a favorable reception for the group will be an asset the President can use to augment his own public image." Nixon obviously agrees with that lesson in history. He unveiled his creation as a unit last week, the first time that has been done since Woodrow Wilson's mass announcement in 1913-and the first time ever as a live television show...
...violence in those days was absorbed in the onward rush of American life and the abiding faith in progress. Violence today is different, compressed in vast, complex, overcrowded cities; and blacks are not immigrants nor do they share the immigrants' optimism. Actually there are signs at present that black riots are abating. Despite the chain reaction of violence in April, after Martin Luther King's assassination, the Justice Department counted 25 "serious to major" disturbances from June through August, compared with 46 during the same three-month period last year. The number of deaths went down from...
...what happened last week was the wildest thing in Sultan's history since the 1884 visit of the Black Diamond Minstrel Company. By the thousands, strangers streamed into the tiny hamlet hard by the Skykomish (Big Sky) River, 48 miles northeast of Seattle. As the incredulous Sultanites watched, onward trooped hundreds of hippies, pseudo hippies, camp followers, hangers-on, even some ordinary-looking folks. Then came the musicians with the weird-sounding names and getups - Country Joe and the Fish, the Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band, Frumious Bandersnatch, Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck, Dr. Humbead...
...French are rarely consistent, but they are usually logical-in their fashion. From the lycée onward, millions of Frenchmen are exposed to the classic symmetrical syllogisms of cartesian logic; as a result, a Frenchman tends to dismiss whatever he disagrees with not because it is intrinsically wrong but because it seems wrongly reasoned. "C'est pas logique."-roughly, "No one in his right mind would think like that"-is a favorite saying. To the vast numbers of middle-aged who feared continued social upheavals, to the little old ladies in black who considered the old ways best...