Word: pur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nominate for the Man of the Year Lyndon B. Johnson. The man who is now pur President must face terrific odds. President Johnson is fortunately able to meet the challenge...
...this year. Facing the prospect of a 10% to 20% drop in grain production, Moscow has clamped a news blackout on the subject. And apart from a routine one-line announcement of a new trade agreement, there was not one word about the huge $500 million pur chase of Canadian wheat and flour that the Kremlin hopes will make up much of the deficit...
...every age carry guns and are capable of either murdering the government leaders -or over throwing the government if discontented. We regret that the American people are deprived of the facts of the socialist revolution in Cuba." Fidel Castro could not have said it better, but for his pur poses the propaganda was far more valuable, coming as it did from 58 youth ful, presumably open-minded American "students"* who have been making news for a month on a forbidden junket to Cuba. Last week, as the 58 prepared to return home, the U.S. prepared a welcome far hotter than...
...search for agreement on the meaning of words is still important--the theory of special relativity, for example, grew from a sophisticated examination of the word simultaneous. Still, it is disheartening for the layman to watch sociologists chasing each other, like so many out Little Black Sambo's tree, pur-definition of social character...
...Hagerty flew off to Alaska to meet Eisenhower (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), he left behind him an exultant anti-Kishi coalition, which seemed confident that it had the government on the run. Should Eisenhower now visit Japan, cried the Socialists, it could only be for the pur pose of propping up the tottering power of Kishi, and that would represent an interference in the internal affairs of Japan...