Word: paramount
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...strategy born of desperation, the impending escalation and preparation for an extended land war will result in serious internal political consequences. Although most of us organizing in communities have only been marginally affected by the war thus far, we will soon find that when national solidarity becomes of paramount importance to those waging the war, they will not tolerate internal dissent-about anything. Within our own and other organizations we must begin to prepare for this eventuality. Extended escalation will affect the character of domestic politics on another front as well: with or without a declaration of war, dissent will...
...before the general came back to seek the nomination, and was impressed. "As for myself," Luce wrote later, "I had to make a decision which was personally painful. I respected Taft ?as who did not? But I decided I must go for Eisenhower. I thought it was of paramount importance that the American people should have the experience of being under a Republican Administration so that they would not forever associate Republicanism with Depression or with isolationism. I was sure that Eisenhower could win. I was not sure that Taft could...
...displays vast amounts of energy. A student who has worked with him at Miles College says: "They [the people at Miles] are a little bit cowed by Monro's ability to work hard and accomplish a lot in a short time.... The drive to get things done is paramount...
After a boyhood surrounded by his parents' Boston friends and graduation from Harvard College in 1928, Howe turned at first to a different world, that of film making. He joined Paramount Pictures as a second assistant director and worked on pictures with Jimmy Durante and Fred Allen. Soon, however, Howe was back in Cambridge at the Law School...
...told him I did, but he paid no attention. "After they'd finished shooting the picture," he said, "Paramount got kind of worried--it was one of the worst movies they'd seen in years. So they called Jonathan Winters back to do some re-shooting, and they put in all this narration stuff with the father character making quips from a little hole in the screen. And it's not so bad, if you close your eyes and just listen to the gags...