Word: stuns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Assurance slated down . . . all this to stun...
...Debate. While there is plenty of reason to be proud of the accomplishment, no one is satisfied. Neither the new generation nor the parents, nor the academicians for that matter, can quite grasp the totality of the revolution in U.S. education. The sheer numbers alone stun them. The task of deciding what a good education should be, and what ought to be taught, and when and to whom it ought to be taught-to say nothing of how education should be financed-poses tremendous problems and precipitates endless debate...
...harder it is to slog on -- the faster you go, the more your brains are scrambled. Her first sentence is perhaps the most complicated grammatical collection of sundry phrases, clauses, and punctuation since Galliawas divisa into partestres. It deserves quoting as an example of a good way to stun a reader and wreck some moderately refreshing images. Says...
...strikes may temporarily slacken the enemy's will to wage war. While not depending on North Viet Nam for supplies, the rebels certainly look to Hanoi for strategy and inspiration. It is therefore plausible that the President ordered the air attacks to stun the North into caution, thereby gaining for the tottering regime in Saigon a short recess in the hostilities. The second wave of strikes yesterday bears out this interpretation, for these attacks were not preceeded by fresh North Vietnamese or Viet Cong provocation; they cannot be construed as "retalliation...
...granddaddy was a Texan, but Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon, 54, is an Eastern dude. Nonetheless, he knows that out West, it ain't spurs that go jingle, jangle, jingle, it's those silver dollars the mountain folk use as a status symbol to stun the visitors. Caving in to Western mining-state demands, Congress approved funds to mint 45 million new cart wheels, as recommended by neatly lassoed Dillon, who called them "a traditional medium of exchange in many Western states." So they are, in one vital area of commerce: there's no earthly...