Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City Bank, which warned that it could have a "perverse" effect on the economy. Richard Nixon said last week that a tax hike might cause a recession that "would wipe out the gains of the past ten years." House Minority Leader Gerald Ford believes that it would be a "tragic mistake." Democratic Senators Vance Hartke of Indiana, George Smathers of Florida and William Proxmire. of Wisconsin all oppose it. The President's influential fellow Texan, Chairman Wright Patman of the House Banking Committee, flatly insists that a tax hike would plunge the U.S. into a depression...
...This is tragic waste indeed...
...discussion and the doubts are not likely to abate, for nearly every significant incident of that tragic day is fraught with controversy and coincidence. Even a new investigation would be committed to making its own judgments and offering its best reasoned opinions-just as the Warren Commission did-in crucial areas where no firm facts exist. Thus, lacking any new evidence, there seems little valid excuse for so dramatic a development as another full-scale inquiry...
...unmarked tomb. The town's very location was lost until 1709, when monks in Resina, a city superimposed by chance on Herculaneum's grave, uncovered some marble theater seats while sinking a well. Other diggers plundered Herculaneum of everything their tunnels exposed. "It is one of the tragic ironies of human endeavor," writes Deiss, "that the suffocating mud did less damage to Herculaneum than the earliest excavators...
...read of the tragic accident of the Oriskany [Nov. 4] with tears in my eyes. Then I turned to the cover story on the presidency, and when I had finished reading it, there were still tears in my eyes-not because I thought you were unnecessarily harsh with him, but because the President and leader of the greatest country in the world so often shows so little dignity, so little sense of what is fitting and proper, so little breeding...