Word: surely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There still is some question as to whether Harvard's skill or Columbia's ineptitude was responsible for the outcome. But as J.S. Mill so aptly put it: "We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still." It was a little of both...
...declare, because as soon as he does he may become more vulnerable. "We could at least make comparisons," says a White House aide. "Now you take a poke and there's nothing there." Once Kennedy is forced to start speaking out on the issues, his support is almost sure to fall off. His current dazzling charisma is obscuring for the moment his liberal views, which could alienate moderates and conservatives when they become better known. Conversely, Kennedy might antagonize his liberal supporters if he starts taking more conservative positions in keeping with the national mood. Though he has championed...
...didn't disappoint them. "I feel just fine." he chuckled, waving aside the unmentioned fact that he is 68. Holding out his glass of tonic water, he said,"Look, not even a ripple"; and sure enough, the surface of the drink was as tranquil as the candidate's mood. He told a questioner that he had just spent his August vacation at his Santa Barbara ranch putting in 400 ft. of fence posts the size of telephone poles. "Age is not a major question," he said. "Maybe there is nothing wrong with a little maturity -someone who remembers...
...there a coverup? "Sure was," said Smith, "because they didn't want it to get out that he'd been killed that way." Smith, who was promoted to captain following Floyd's killing, said he decided it was proper to set the record straight now because, of the seven men involved, only he remains alive - and the truth can no longer hurt anyone...
...Everyone told me that when I came back from France I'd be a skinny frog, so I had to make sure they were wrong," he said...