Word: trustedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This demonstration of trust set Washington's Veep watchers to beeping. Johnson unquestionably thinks well of Shriver. When he was Vice President, he once sent Shriver a praise-filled letter which ended: "The Peace Corps job is being not only well done, but extremely well done." Moreover, Shriver is only 48, a Catholic, a liberal, has a Midwestern background-and is married to Jack Kennedy's sister Eunice...
Keep It Flying. The frenzy of socialization has spawned 15 government-operated enterprises; only one, the cement trust, is earning a clear profit. Air Ceylon consists of a single DC-3, employs dozens of executives to keep it flying. The national salt corporation was so mismanaged that although the island is washed by the salt-rich Indian Ocean, it has had to import salt from abroad. Even Ceylon's Communists are complaining. While carefully exempting Mrs. Bandaranaike from criticism ("the only man in the Cabinet"), Cambridge-educated, pro-Soviet Red Leader Pieter Keuneman lamented: "This government is not going...
Last spring, when some of the same doctors had a male patient of 26 dying of leukemia, they decided to give him marrow transplants. But whose marrow? His parents were still living; so were three brothers and a sister. Rather than trust their own judgment in picking which relative had the closest-matching marrow cells, the doctors left the choice to nature...
Unamuno put his trust in human passion, and even his driest philosophical speculation is passionately alive. On the other hand, Unamuno failed to see that passions can lead to sheer brutality, as they did in the Spanish Civil War. Unamuno liked to compare himself to Don Quixote in his contradictions and paradoxes, and his critics have accepted the analogy. "He was refined and savage," said one, "modern and medieval, with the unction of an apostle and the wisdom of a picaro, a man in whom all the defects and virtues of the Spanish race seem to culminate...
...think there can ever be any hope of coexistence between Greek and Turk here. It has now been established that to become a political leader in Cyprus you must have the right qualification-you must have killed someone. The greatest difficulty is that we can't trust them, and I think they can't trust...