Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time of torture and isolation taught them much about self-reliance and the importance of thinking small. Navy Lieut. (j.g.) Joe Mobley, 36, a thin, balding man who greeted his friends on the first morning of the reunion wearing reverse-heel Earth Shoes and dungarees, still acutely remembers what seem like almost microscopic moments of prisoner austerity. "Your senses become keener," he explains. "You can feel the effect of an aspirin. You can smell a bar of Dial soap at 400 yards...
...difficult thing to contemplate the likelihood that one spent five years be ing tortured for nothing. As they cluster together around the Marriott's eight bars and omelet-shaped pool, the P.O.W.s seem compelled to approve of the life they found at home. Nearly all of them are confused, embarrassed or annoyed by their strange hero status. Says John McCain: "It doesn't take a helluva lot of talent to get shot down." Virginia Guttersen ex plains: "To a military man, the P.O.W. is a loser, the guy who didn't complete his mission. The Government made...
...visit to White Sands and his major speech later in the week in San Francisco were not acts of saber rattling. His performance was part of the most carefully coordinated Administration attempt so far to articulate its defense strategy and its foreign policy goals. The Administration did seem, at least for now, to have harmonized its dissonant voices. The theme was clear: America is second to none in strength, but is nevertheless committed to long-term cooperation-with the Soviets wherever possible...
Finally, it seems clear that the Court, perhaps for the sake of certain legal technicalities, blinded itself to critical data. The decision to order Bakke's admission, for example, underlines this point. This ruling is tenable only on the basis of the initial trial record, which is unusually limited--the pre-arranged deposition of the dean of admissions at Davis furnished the sole testimony, in fact. All appellate courts, including the Supreme Court, must base any subsequent decisions on the trial record, although a justice may loosely draw on material from amici briefs. It would seem Powell chose to discount...
...could have an unexpected effect on hiring practices. Even more important, the kind of flexible admissions policy Powell finds so compelling leaves the door open for the concept of diversity to shift away from the present definition, leaving the minority applicant high and dry. Such a shift does not seem likely today, but it is troublesome; they did leave the door open...