Word: right
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that both sides have employed to justify repeated violations of the 17-month-old ceasefire. Last week it was Israel's turn to retaliate. A few days earlier, the Egyptians had unleashed a sudden Sabbath rocket and artillery barrage that killed 15 Israeli soldiers guarding the right bank of the Suez Canal. Israel's riposte was the most spectacular raid since last year...
...public life. In politics as well as business, the most common rationalization is that the loser has refused to pay a "price" for winning. Henry Clay, who spent 20 years trying to occupy the White House, finally produced that famous sour grape: "I would rather be right than President." A sweeter reaction, "Now I can see my family," was used by William Scranton in 1964 and Nelson Rockefeller in 1968. How would the Great Scorer judge Eugene McCarthy? After losing the Indiana and Nebraska primaries, he sent no congratulatory words to the winners. His grudging endorsement of Hubert Humphrey...
...sooner had the lady arrived in Recife, Brazil, than she was caught in a tangle of traffic. Then, in the middle of a reception at the Palace of Las Princessas, the lights blew and pitched the whole place into darkness. But Queen Elizabeth II, poised as always, went right on receiving guests while servants held glowing candelabra behind her. It was the first visit ever to South America by a reigning British monarch, and the Queen plans ten days in Brazil, another seven in Chile before returning home. Officially, she is returning a state visit to Britain three years...
...themselves that have nothing to do with me at all," she told a reporter. "I don't think my subconscious is all that crazy. The meaning is there on canvas. If you don't get it, that's too bad." And what was she working on right now? inquired the reporter. "Nothing," snapped Georgia, "because I'm talking...
...curious question for an Episcopal bishop to ask of his 22-year-old son. The circumstance under which it was actually asked was odd indeed. The scene was the home of a Santa Barbara spiritualist, the Rev. George Daisley, in the summer of 1967. The questioner was the Right Rev. James A. Pike, the resigned Bishop of California and a staff member of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. With Daisley's help as a medium, he was communicating with his son James Jr., who had killed himself the year before. Young Jim's answer...