Word: saws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outcome, as the victorious Duke of Wellington said of Waterloo, was "the nearest run thing you ever saw." One week before Election Day, nobody would have believed the race could turn out that way. In August, the party that nominated Humphrey at Chicago was a shambles. The old Democratic coalition was disintegrating, with untold numbers of blue-collar workers responding to Wallace's blandishments, Negroes threatening to sit out the election, liberals disaffected over the Viet Nam war, the South lost. The war chest was almost empty, and the party's machinery, neglected by Lyndon Johnson, creaked...
...cases in years, the limits of press freedom are being tested. The occasion is the trial of the editor in chief of Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail, Laurence Gandar, who was arraigned last week for, as he put it, "fulfilling the recognized duty of a newspaper." As Gandar saw that duty, it included publishing a 1965 expose of conditions in South Africa's prisons, re lated mainly by an artist and onetime air force lieutenant named Harold Strachan. During three years as a political prisoner, Strachan recounted, he frequently saw black prisoners whipped, kicked and tortured with shocks...
...long-time director of Australia's Bureau of Mineral Resources (1942-51) and Department of National Development (1951-64); of a heart attack; in Canberra. Sir Harold planned the first complete geological survey of the continent, welcomed foreign capital for development of the desolate Out Back, eventually saw it all pay off as enough oil and gas were discovered to make Australia almost self-sufficient...
...understood that peace and social justice would descend on the world, if at all, from a moral impulse, and where was that impulse to come from? Not from the "self-justifying complacent hypocrisy of the boiled rabbits. . .of the left intelligentsia." The real problem of the West, as he saw it, was to preserve mankind's ethical values- honor, mercy, justice, respect for others -in the face of an almost universal disappearance of a belief in the immortality of the soul. Being naturally a good man, he was a good humanist, but being a logical man, he saw that...
...course. We couldn't take everybody else but we let in some black freshmen. It may very well be that my lectures are ill-suited for freshmen and sophomores. I put in anecdotes to illustrate points--students complain if lectures become straight factual presentations. I assumed when I saw their backgrounds--and these are great kids, caught up in a great movement -- that these students already knew about Nat Turner and John Brown. But I was assuming too much knowledge on their part. Now I'm trying to give lectures that have more emphasis on fundamentals...