Word: reflecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vital step that every citizen can take is to cough up a small campaign contribution in support of the party, principle or candidate that means the most to him. Only if millions of Americans come to the aid of their principles in election year 1968 will their parties truly reflect their wishes and flourish as free institutions...
...followed the practice of most American news media in failing to mention that more than $2.5 billion of that total is the budget for the Atomic Energy Commission. While not disputing that items in the public-works section of the bill could be cut, I feel journalistic accuracy should reflect the dual nature of the Public Works and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriation Bill. You might wish to express your opinion on whether the AEC portion should be cut. HOWARD W. ROBISON Congressman 33rd District, New York Washington...
...decision. These and other chaotic events leading up to Imperial Japan's capitulation are arranged with precision in The Fall of Japan. Author Craig, a former Manhattan adman, unfolds the story in the you-are-here fashion of popular history. Yet his documentation and use of original sources reflect first-rate scholarship. Among other topics, Craig traces the origins of the kamikaze suicide squadrons, General Curtis LeMay's plans for a low-altitude fire-bomb attack on Tokyo, and the success of Japanese intelligence forces in learning the details of the U.S. plan to invade the home islands...
...entries culled by Editor Maud show clearly the developing poet. He was only 15 when he started the first of the four notebooks he sold to the Lockwood, under 20 when he made the last entry in them, but from the very first they reflect both a fierce doubt about the worth of life and a fierce enthusiasm for it. "We are too beautiful to die," wrote the doubting adolescent, and soon he was noting that the beautiful die young (Thomas himself...
...great Southern university. During the course of that visit we were told about a man on their wards who had been hopelessly unconscious for more than a year. He got pneumonia. The question was, should he be treated? He was. And the reasons he was treated do not reflect any very great credit on his institution. He was treated, as the medical personnel pointed out, "because the nurses made us do it." This was neither a humanitarian nor a medical decision: it was simply an emotional decision. Please do not think that I decry the compassion of those nurses...