Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Risky Course. The remark was one sign of Humphrey's uncomfortable realization that he is now at the mercy of events that he did not count on. His hopes of becoming the Democratic candidate without running in the primaries were in serious danger...
...arithmetic underlying that gallows humor, reports TIME Supreme Court Correspondent David Beckwith, should be chilling to those who last week presented oral arguments asking the court to eliminate capital punishment finally and completely. For the remark assumed that Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justices Harry Blackmun, William Rehnquist and Lewis Powell, who voted against finding the death penalty cruel and unusual punishment in 1972, will continue to hold to that position. If new Justice John Paul Stevens joins them or if either Potter Stewart or Byron White switches sides, then the nine-year nationwide executions hiatus will be near...
...before beginning his opening speech in the Security Council debate. The new ambassador looked around the chamber and invited "any of you and preferably all of you" to consult informally with him about the situation in the Middle East. Perhaps oversensitively, the Israeli government decided that Scranton's remark implied formal U.S. acceptance of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and it ordered Ambassador Simcha Dinitz to protest to Kissinger. The Secretary of State, embarrassed about Scranton's friendliness, described the ambassador's impromptu invitation as "an unfortunate formulation...
With that remark having appeased his party's outraged right wing, which opposed the talks with Nkomo, Smith then went on to say he would consider renouncing his unilateral 1965 declaration of independence and return Rhodesia to British colonial status. With heavy sarcasm, he suggested that the British should stop maneuvering against Smith and "come through the front door and accept the responsibility they claim they have...
...characteristic remark, utterly self-assured and mockingly arrogant. But when Bernard Law Montgomery died at 88 last week at Hampshire, England, there was no shortage of experts who agreed-almost. Historian A.J.P. Taylor felt that Montgomery was "the best British field commander since Wellington." Dwight Eisenhower, World War II boss of the brusque and banty (5 ft. 8 in.) field marshal, said that Monty was tops at winning the admiration of his men and in fighting set-piece battles. Others called Montgomery s overrated and unimaginative as a general and spiteful and cantankerous as a man. Whatever the final verdict...