Word: unevennesses
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...hold of yourself; be what you are. The reader has to appreciate more pages, more opinions, but he is not likely to be fooled by a newspaper whose looks have been tinkered with so as to ape a television screen. Besides, the color reception in most papers is uneven. Ever count the number of helmets that quarterback appears to be wearing, the number of eyes on that beauty queen? A case in point seems due about here...
...record is just as uneven in areas other than national security. Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover have been castigated by historians for watching the signs of looming economic chaos in the 1920s and failing to take action that might have helped control the damage. The entire roster of modern problems-central-city decay, environmental pollution, civil rights conflict-could be seen approaching, but no President really moved to head them...
Kennedy's tenure was littered with messy crises-in Laos, Cuba, the Congo, Latin America, Algeria, Viet Nam and Berlin-and his record in dealing with them is decidedly uneven. Revisionists like to say that Kennedy was a cold warrior who sought confrontation, but in the early '60s, the Soviets busied themselves around the world in ways that no American President could ignore...
DARTMOUTH 7, COLUMBIA 6--I should to Columbia too, but time will not permit. All is uneven, and every thing is left at six and seven...
...still Harvard doesn't mind if a player might be missing a mouthpiece or if his pants are too short. The field is the regular 100 yards, but the chalk sidelines are uneven, hastily drawn and a bit spotty. The referees are there, too, in black and white striped jerseys, but when they feel that it's too cold for their comfort, the game clock starts to speed up a bit too quickly to escape a furtive suspicion...