Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Their notion that we are rich, powerful, and single-minded enough to unilaterally decree the course of history," he told the Law School Forum, is incompatible with American ideals of personal liberty and national autonomy...
...Wilkinson's pitch to the voters has a simple, conservative consistency that has been characterized as "Basic Bud." "We must," says Bud, "reaffirm our faith in the diffusion of government responsibility and the diffusion of powers." He supports the 27½% oil-depletion allowance, so important to oil-rich Oklahoma, has reservations about the Civil Rights Act, opposes federal aid to education, favors minimal federal controls in agriculture. To the argument that a success on the gridiron might not suffice for achievement in the U.S. Senate, Wilkinson says: "Lyndon Johnson was a schoolteacher, Hubert Humphrey a pharmacist. I think...
Much of the Philippines' violence rises from the chasm of poverty that separates rich and poor. Though the 7,100 islands of the republic are rich in natural resources (gold and copper on Luzon, iron on Samar, chromite on Mindanao) and fecund with such crops as tobacco, sugar, corn and rice, average Filipino income is only $120 a year. Fully 6% of the population is unemployed, and a third of all Filipinos work only three months a year. Manila's wealthy suburb of Forbes Park glitters with swimming pools, but children starve to death regularly in the shack...
...first; but now, even the reporters chasing Humphrey blanch at the sight of yet another dinner steak. Newsmen with Johnson get steak for breakfast-and Bloody Marys before breakfast if they desire. In the affluent society, the rubber chicken of the banquet circuit has been replaced by the rich diet of the campaign...
...from the others by its sense of Irish gaiety in the midst of bloodletting, of poetry rising from its bitterness. Thus the most rousing songs of the best Irish tenors celebrate some irregular victory or bravely borne defeat. And it is just this-the rich lyric feeling of Irish patriotism-that is the real subject of Michael Farrell's evocative novel of the growth to manhood of Matthew Martin Reilly during the worst of the Irish troubles as they rose to a crescendo at the time of World...