Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon Johnson who spoke those self-justifying words, but Ulysses S. Grant in his farewell annual message on the State of the Union in 1876. The Grant Administration was pockmarked with scandal and ineptitude, and Grant's standing among scholars of the presidency is no higher now than it was among the people then. Last week Johnson, the 36th President of the U.S., took his own leave of a nation disenchanted with a far-off war and deeply perturbed by its myriad problems at home. His apologia was not abject like Grant's, but his peroration contained...
...paused. The girl blinked her eyes as he looked at her. She took a breath and gestured with her hands as she spoke...
...Force and conducted by a team of University of Colorado scientists led by respected Physicist Edward Condon. It had been thoroughly reviewed and then approved by the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. Thus, when the Scientific-Study of Unidentified Flying Objects was finally made public last week, it spoke with authority. Its conclusions all but demolished the idea that earth has been visited by creatures from oth er planets. Despite a few remaining puzzles, there is no evidence, said the report, that UFOs are spaceships from extraterrestrial civilizations and no scientific justification at this time for any further extensive saucer...
...Reason gave birth to England's two greatest satirists: Jonathan Swift in prose and Alexander Pope in poetry. On Quennell's showing, it is clear that Pope, who once spoke of "that long disease, my life," shared in some measure Swift's notorious horror of life itself. In Swift's case, this amounted to a pathological detestation of the bodily functions intense enough to disable the Dean from physical expression of the love he felt for women. In Pope's case, it did not prevent him from trying to play the rake at large...
...cost 30,000 American lives, but the American Empire is less secure today than when Johnson became its ruler. Even the Congressmen who still support the war are aware that something has gone drastically wrong, that America, for one reason or another, is in terrible trouble. While Johnson spoke, the USS Enterprise, the largest ship ever built, not far from home in a friendly sea, was blowing itself up with its own bombs...