Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...referred to the House Judiciary Committee as having "long been a graveyard for complicated legislation." I must take serious objection to that comment. The members of the committee have worked too hard for too many years on too many pieces of complex and highly technical legislation to permit that remark to stand without rebuttal...
...Mazlish, who wrote a crude psycho-biography of our former chief executive called In Search of Nixon, had attacked Coles for panning a group of similar psycho-biographies. He called Coles a traitor to the field and made a "Well, Erikson was just telling me over lunch" sort of remark in "the field's" defense. Coles responded that he didn't care to ally himself with "fields" or "schools," but that he admired social thinkers who were original and thoughtful and not overly dogmatic. The difference between you and Erikson, Coles in effect told Mazlish, is that only...
...paranoid" about "a few Communists [in Africa], even a few thousand Communists." Then, asked if he thought the South African government was "illegitimate," he replied with a breezy "Yeah." In Pretoria, the U.S. ambassador was immediately summoned for an explanation. In Washington, a State Department spokesman formally repudiated the remark...
...Tell your teacher that our family history is none of her damn business!" was a remark I heard more than once when we started searching for family histories [March 28] as an English-class project...
First baseman Bingham led all Harvard batters during the round robin with a .500 average, seven rbi's, and three doubles. Halas, playing with an injured hand, hit .438 and prompted Coach Park to remark that "He's got to be in there starting someplace." Second sacker Stenhouse drove in seven runs and hit .381 despite some shaky fielding...