Word: surely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD and, even while living, they weren't too sure who they were, why they were alive or why they were summoned to Elsinore. Tom Stoppard's work is both witty and wise, drawing its humor from the device of looking at the events around Hamlet through the eyes of the addled house guests, and its humanity from the universality of a situation in which men cannot understand the orders handed them by fate...
...question that nagged Washington was whether the shift to future indicative did, in fact, signal a bona fide peace bid. Outside of North Viet Nam, no one could say for sure. Nonetheless, other simultaneous developments added to the sense, if not the substance, of the hope that there might be some movement in the diplomatic deadlock...
...billion gross national product. But a continuation of such deficits could erode confidence in the dollar to the point where the potent U.S. economic diesel might just go pop. Congressmen generally agreed that something had to be done-quickly. There was grumbling on Capitol Hill, to be sure. Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy said that the moves were "too defensive-like punting on first down." A number of Congressmen objected to the idea of curbs on tourists...
...work), white neighbors are already complaining about "too much noise between 6 and 9." Witherspoon was approached by Black Nationalist Ron Karenga's boys shortly after his return (he holds a karate black belt), but turned down the invitation to join the revolution. Now he is not so sure. "Sometimes I feel it was all for nothing," he says of Viet Nam. "You know, we go over there and tell them their house is dirty before we got our own house clean...
...ministers raced around with their mistresses in big Mercedes cars, Ghana's new rulers stress thrift, churchgoing and close family ties. They are hospitable to foreigners; outside the capital of Accra, billboards that once proclaimed "Down with Neo-Colonialism" now read "Ghana Welcomes Foreign Investment." One sure sign that Ghana is a different place these days was the friendly visit there last week by Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the first top U.S. official to visit Ghana since Richard Nixon went to its independence celebrations...