Word: rashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amid this growing discontent, Congressional opponents of the war could have gone much farther in drafting them. They might have proposed new Constitutional restrictions on the Presidency--a rash technique tried 14 years ago when the Bricker Amendment limiting the President's treaty-making power met narrow defeat. To tie the President's hands for all time would have been a mistake then, and would...
...Beatles, who have repeatedly transcended the constricting identities foisted on them by press and public, whose whole career has been a tran scendent, heel-clicking leap right over pop music's high Himalayas? On the basis of what they have achieved so far, it would be rash to dispute George when he says: "We haven't really started yet. We've only just discovered what we can do as musicians, what thresholds we can cross. The future stretches out beyond our imagination...
Western democracy was centuries in the creating. Teaching its fragile forms and subtle exercises to an alien culture would be a difficult experiment in the best of circumstances. To try to transplant democracy to Viet Nam in the year 1967 would seem a rash and reckless enterprise in the worst of places at the worst of times. Yet this year, South Viet Nam has promulgated a constitution written by a popularly elected Constituent Assembly. Voters in more than 4,000 villages and hamlets have gone to the polls to choose their own local officials. And last week the people...
Understandably, the rioting in Detroit and in other U.S. cities has led to some alarm in the insurance industry. Insurers, says American Insurance Association President T. Lawrence Jones, are unhappy not only about the present rash of damage claims but also about "the potential losses from similar events in the future." Insurance companies will certainly try to cut their losses-especially for any future disturbances. "Those people in Detroit are going to pay a whale of a price," says James L. Bentley, president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Jones does not hesitate to predict that looting and arson...
...thousands, blue-capped tourists in buses and cars race down the Mediterranean highway to gawk in Gaza and bargain-hunt for pottery, lamps and wicker goods in the bazaars. At first, miniskirted young Israeli sabras so excited Arab men, accustomed to women more thoroughly clothed, that an uncontrollable rash of pinching broke out. Now miniskirts are banned in Gaza...