Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Belaúnde's fall once again raised the question of whether democracy can flourish in Latin America. Its prospects had seldom seemed more promising than when Belaúnde took over the presidency in 1963. He plunged into his tasks vowing to do "twelve years' work in six." Eager to aid Peru's impoverished peasants, he launched a whirlwind campaign to build houses, schools, rural airports and roads. The symbol of his dreams for Peru was a new highway cutting into the trans-Andean forests, each mile of roadway completed opening up 3,500 acres...
...perfectly programmed movements. Hugh Sidey and John Austin are also with Nixon, and Charles Eisendrath is traveling with Agnew, Hays Gorey with Humphrey. Arlie Schardt and Roger Williams cover George Wallace, whom they find surprisingly amiable in private but unexciting to cover because he sticks to one speech and seldom bothers with position papers or shifts in strategy...
...sense of perspective. Demands that the letter of every law be enforced to the full are risible. Myriad statutes range from Internal Revenue Service rulings to Coast Guard safety regulations for pleasure boats, and hundreds of such laws are widely flouted by the most respectable citizens. It is seldom that a responsible businessman engages in fraud or embezzlement, but when he does it is apparent to the poor that his transgression, however grandiose, rarely draws a penalty comparable in economic terms to that meted out to the petty thief. To which the responsible businessman is apt to reply that...
...Democrats, Billy has seldom seen Hubert Humphrey since their first unlikely meeting in 1945 when "we were both swimming nude at the Y.M.C.A. in Minneapolis." Humphrey was running for mayor and, Graham recalls, joked that "I want you to vote for me some day." It may not be this year. "I haven't even told my wife," says Billy. "I'm sure she suspects whom I'd vote for, but I haven't told...
...would welcome. The nation is, as he describes it, quite obviously torn and tormented by the problems of an age more complex than man has ever known. Yet not even Krock is convinced that his rumblings of impending doom should be taken full strength. With the innate humor he seldom displayed in 60 years of portentous prose, he recalls in his memoirs the advice once offered him by Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Cheer up, Arthur. Things have seldom been as bad as you said they were...