Word: sure
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure that the chap who opened the left-handed shop in London last year won't make a go of it. I would guess that the majority of left-handers would have a hard time learning to use something designed just for them either because 1) they have learned to use most things as a right-hander would, or 2) they have learned to use things in their own gauche-appearing...
...your Essay about eliminating the draft in favor of a volunteer army [Jan. 10] been accompanied by a graph plotting re-enlistment rates against intelligence, I'm quite sure it would have resembled a ski jump...
...Nixon's quiet leadership techniques took hold throughout the squadron. I am sure that his leadership qualities will stand all Americans in good stead these next four years...
...incredible year ended, to be sure, with a growing view that the worst is over, the raw angers of race and generations spent and replaced by a national readiness to begin anew. As if symbolizing its potential for great cooperative projects, the U.S. sent three articulate and sensitive men on a faultless trip around the moon. Yet Richard Nixon, unfortunately, cannot rely on what may be only a passing moment of domestic peace and pride. Dark forces endure in U.S. life; stubborn problems remain to be resolved. Clearly, the daunting task of the American President in 1969 is nothing less...
...nature, he must rapidly learn and unlearn technical ways that his father did not know and that may prove useless to his children. Religion fell away, while faith in industrial progress became a form of religion-now itself eroded by creeping pessimism. Less than ever before is Western man sure of his own nature, except that he is so adaptable. That quality is all that saves him from the pathological anxiety experienced by tribal Africans exposed too abruptly to technology. It is also what inures him to urban filth and noise and crowding-and doing too little about them...