Word: sole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From the Bay of Pigs fiasco, President Kennedy learned that it is vital to our security that a President be a forceful and intelligent leader, the sole determiner of policy. The major lesson for the American people is that it is better to accept a momentary setback in prestige than risk a long-lasting loss of respect throughout the world. Kennedy best expressed this concept when he said, "What is prestige? Is it the shadow of power or the substance of power?" The Bay of Pigs was far from a total loss for the U.S., for it provided Kennedy with...
...night, Ramoo shuffles down to the village's sole radio receiver, listens to the state-owned All-India Radio, which helps him to forget his debt to the village moneylender. Now and then he attends one of the thousand torchlit religious fairs that dominate the Indian calendar. There he delights in the wit of storytellers reciting one or another of the ageless, adventurous Hindu myths...
...effect is reassuring. Once a week, at 7:15 in the morning, the hospital staff convenes for a no-holds-barred critique of its own performance. "I wonder how many laymen," writes Dr. X, "ever even dream that 60 of the city's doctors gather voluntarily for the sole purpose of keeping themselves sharp and on their toes?" For every lapse of skill, Intern cites ten occasions where a brilliant diagnosis, or a skillful stroke of the scalpel, frustrated man's ultimate enemy...
...rate by paying $870 an acre for its site, and nearby Hennepin land soon started attracting bids of up to $5,000 an acre. A vacant lot 80 ft. by 150 ft. drew an offer of $10,000. Two speculators tried to buy up stock in Hennepin's sole bank, threatened to put up another one next door when their offer was refused. Half a dozen groups rushed in and offered to buy the Putnam County Record, the county's only newspaper...
Henry D. Smyth, SC.D., physicist and member of Atomic Energy Commission from 1949 to 1954. It is to your unending credit that the domestic climate did not prevent you from being the sole commissioner to cast his vote in approval of the then-disputed loyalty of a fellow physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer...