Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sure enough, he did. In Washington, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, without ever once saying flatly that Goldwater's statement was altogether false, protested that he was "shocked" by Goldwater's remark, which he termed "completely misleading, politically irresponsible, and damaging to the national security." Next day Goldwater, a major general in the Air Force Reserve and a longtime Senate champion of the manned-bomber program, called for a Senate investigation of the reliability of ICBMs. "If I am proven wrong," he said, "I will be very pleased and happy to admit...
...Africa to visit his only pals in Europe-the Communists of Premier Enver Hoxha's Albania. In an interview on French television, taped while Chou was in Morocco, he came up with what, for him, was a startling thought: war between East and West is not inevitable. The remark was strictly for capitalist consumption, of course; in Albania, Chou found genuine enthusiasm for his usual militant opposition to the whole idea of Communist coexistence with the West...
...When you mentioned Lechin's remark, "It is a tradition in the mines" [Dec. 20], you reminded me of the following...
...construction of Europe has become irreversible," said Jean Monnet, the aging chief architect of the European Economic Community-a remark he might not have felt up to making a few months earlier. French Agriculture Minister Edgard Pisani, looking as if he had swallowed a succulent mouse, was pleased that he could "now leave with a tranquil heart for my winter sports." And the Times of London, gazing upon the events with an outsider's eye, greeted the news from Brussels as "one of the best Christmas presents the Western world could have...
Emma was married to Thomas Hardy for 38 years.* Her style as a literary wife is suggested by the remark she made about the admiring ladies who thronged about her husband in London after he became famous: "They are the poison," said Emma complacently. "I am the antidote." Emma never let Hardy forget that his literary reputation was vastly inflated, and after she failed to talk him out of publishing that "vicious" novel Jude the Obscure, she lost virtually all interest in her husband's writings. But at the same time her interest in her own innocuous poems continued...