Word: recurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that his aides in the Congo had exceeded their orders. "There occurred a serious breakdown," a spokesman said, "in effective communication and coordination between the U.N. headquarters and the Leopoldville office.'' Off to Leopoldville "to determine the cause of this lapse and to ensure it will not recur" flew U.N. Under Secretary Ralph Bunche. But once there, Bunche announced that the U.N. still wanted "freedom of movement" throughout...
...there a likelihood of such wars recurring? Yes, there is. Are uprisings of this kind likely to recur? Yes, they are. Is there the likelihood of conditions in other countries reaching the point where the cup of the popular patience overflows and they take to arms? Yes, there is such a likelihood...
Reading through this supplement, you will find that a number of related themes frequently recur. Byron Stookey's proposal for a lengthened period of education points up one of them quite vividly: "Do we believe," he asks, "that we all know, when we are 19, everything we want to learn? Do we believe that we all shall (later) find, in our careers and communities, and acquaintances, stimulus to intelligent self-education...
...prominent side of the Fantasy resembles the dominant tone of the Variations: insistent, clangorous declamation. Since this percussiveness is always transparent and shrewdly manipulates the piano's tone colors, it avoids bombast or irritating din. Declamation forms the backbone of this far-ranging piece through two motives that recur with triumphant resonance, one a defiant, metallic rattle of repeated notes, the other a thunderously rhetorical passage, of two lines roaring together from the outskirts of the piano. The responsive ear will delight in the grating dissonances and, what's more, it will do so even more after repeated listening...
...relation to the doings of men, it serves as a sharp warning to liberal legalists. In the near past it has been easy for committees to ride waves of panic, ruin men without any sort of trial, and silence opposition with fear. In the near future such things may recur. The Supreme Court has given the clearest indication that legal bulwarks against Congressional committees are not enough. Men interested in preventing what Black calls government by intimidation had best look to Congress, and--slight as the chances now seem--goad it into leashing its own committees...