Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School students view Harvard as the place where they can get their hands on the levers that will move education. But when the school has not lived up to their expectations, they have seldom hesitated to make themselves heard, when and where it counts...
...Seldom articulate and usually all but invisible, America's poor are the losers in what Connecticut's Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff calls "the lotteries of parenthood, skin pigmentation and birthplace." In a society and an age that demand ever higher skills and more sophisticated minds, the poor, simply by standing still, are caught up in a kind of geometric regression. For the most part, they are those whom the welfare state never brushed, a residual minority tucked away in rural backwaters and urban ghettos: the Cumberland's dirt farmer, the Mississippi cotton chopper, the migrant farm worker...
...even taken to asking key congressional military committeemen to the Pentagon for briefing breakfasts, the Secretary has consistently all but ignored the Armed Services Committees of both houses when it comes to making crucial military decisions. As House Minority Whip Leslie Arends protested last week: "Secretary McNamara seldom asks advice, and listens only when he asks. I am constrained to ask: 'Upon what meat does this, our Caesar, feed that he is grown so great...
...thinks, forever. "My only idiosyncrasy is that I prefer to play in the afternoon," he says. "It is tense to wait until the evening. By the time evening comes I am ready to go eeeeeech! But that is all. The audiences are too hysterical now because I play too seldom. These hysterics, they bother me, they make me nervous. I have a responsibility to make the public relax. I am ready to play more...
Psychological Effect. Though the effect of such orders will be largely psychological, they might work well. Seldom have traders been so drawn by profit dreams rather than performance reality. Most notable example this month is Calumet & Hecla Inc., a 95-year-old Michigan copper company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. With investors excited by the possibilities of war in Viet Nam and shortages of war-essential copper at home, Calumet & Hecla two weeks ago touched off a run by announcing a 35 million-ton copper ore find in upper Michigan. Remembering quick profits generated by Texas Gulf Sulphur...