Word: remotest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of vacation nostalgia as the unvisited museum or the unclaimed laundry. The catchall bookshelf in a rented summer cottage, once the hallowed repository of mildewed National Geographies and Mary Roberts Rinehart, now often runs to Pasternak and Proust, to Galbraith and Gideon's Trumpet. Even in the remotest fishing village, the drugstore often offers a conscience-pricking range of paperback titles. Inevitably, as he scoops up Louis Fischer's Life of Lenin, Camus' The Plague, George Orwell's Essays, and four Ian Flemings for insurance, the vacationer is torn between dreams of intellectual grandeur...
...measure of the market's uncertainty was the unwarranted attention it continued to pay to even the remotest news event or speech. Washington kept on trying to calm that uncertainty. After lying low for a while, William McChesney Martin Jr., who helped to precipitate the sharp market drop with his speech citing similarities between the current economic situation and that of the 1920s, joined the calming team. President Johnson had him conspicuously on hand when he signed the excise-tax-cut bill, passed him one of the pens. Next day, Johnson trotted out Martin (along with several Cabinet officers...
...joined the May Second Movement. We met for coffee, and he talked for a time about the hopelessness of the American world position. He asked if my views about Vietnam had changed. At the end, be shook his head. "Man," he said. "Like you have just the remotest possibility of salvation...
...draft boards did not credit them with having "a belief in a Supreme Being" as the draft act demands for exemption from duty. New Yorker Daniel Seeger is an agnostic who believes in "goodness and virtue for their own sakes," and has no faith in God "except in the remotest sense" Arno Sascha Jakobson, also of New York, accepts a creative "supreme reality in which "the existence of man is the result." California's Forest Britt Peter believes in "some power manifest in nature which helps man in the ordering of his life...
...study is trying to remain as noncommittal as possible, according to Selfert, and is taking even the remotest possibilities into consideration. To be successful, however, any new form of transportation would have to offer both a speed and a fare comparable to those of the airlines...