Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...declares, "are only a Band-Aid on a gaping, massive wound. Should the present trends continue, we can expect guerrilla warfare on a scale terrible to contemplate." Hauser contends that a great deal of effort is being dissipated. "What is the point of putting children in a Head Start program," he asks, "and then into a conventional school system not designed to build on what he acquired...
...parts of Los Angeles will start getting converted sea water from a nuclear-powered 150 million-gallon-a-day plant. The U.S. and Mexico may put up a billion-gallon-a-day plant on the Gulf of California in the 1980s. By that time, the cost of desalting water could be cut to 100 per 1,000 gallons. Speaking over the noisy hum of Key West's desalting plant last week, Vice President Hubert Humphrey ventured a bold prediction. With such breakthroughs, he said, desalination will eventually yield benefits "as great as those bestowed by the development of electricity...
...bicycling alone across a huge airstrip, a confrontation with the enemy in an echoing, empty marble mansion. To no avail. As in many another amateurish spy film, Sinatra and company have forgotten to look for the enemy within-a soggy scenario that gummed up the caper from the start...
...only answer is that it is both. The U.S. has never done so well on the political side as, ideally, it should have. But Hilsman seems to overestimate just how much could have been accomplished in the circumstances by political means alone, against a determined opponent who from the start used both military and political weapons in complete conjunction...
...simply superimposed on the dialogue, with the result that one cannot understand either the Greek or the English. At other times the Greek is momentarily faded out. I think a better solution (if a narrative was necessary at all) would have been to present an English summary at the start of each play and then let the drama go right through in uninterrupted Greek...