Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result has been that many students go ot college today who wouldn't have thirty years ago. The opportunities are greater, the motivation different. During the Depression, only those who were highly motivated academically or very rich could afford a college education. Today, the typical college student ends up on the campus because social pressure drives him there, and also because of the vague feeling that the more education one has, the better...
...guerrilla wars of the past, we have furnished much of the material and most of the men and most of the lives. We are rich and strong and populous. There are nearly 200-million of us. But there are 2-billion people in the free world. And it makes little sense for a nation with one-tenth the world's population to be fighting wars all over the world...
...Outside the dining hall, Americans are rich and lonely; Italians have lots of lonely friends. They don't know what they're missing
Pulling in to defend the cities, the allies have been forced to cede large areas of the countryside to the Communists. Except for the largest population centers, for example, the rich Delta is now almost entirely in Viet Cong hands. There is not a Delta road safe to drive on, by day or night. Massive quantities of supplies are moving through the Delta for the enemy buildup around Saigon, and U.S. reconnaissance planes now sight piles of enemy artillery shells flagrantly stacked out in the open. But people and goods cannot move in the Delta; fish rot where they have...
...rich sheikdoms, whose names together have a wonderfully soothing, almost hypnotic rhythm, are part of the seven tiny Trucial* States perched on the Persian Gulf. They make up for their smallness by king-size feuds over their indefinite boundaries. There has been no end of dagger duels between the inhabitants of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, but last week delegations from both met in a cluster of mud huts on their mutual borders. After countless cups of tea, Sheik Zaid bin Sultan of Abu Dhabi and Sheik Rashid bin Said Al-Maktoum of Dubai signed a pact of federation that will...