Word: uppermost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...village election?none of which is probably uppermost in the minds of the uprooted, war-weary villagers. Critics point out that there has been no substantial reduction in assassinations, kidnappings and other terror tactics against villagers...
...summit conference. Diplomats of the U.S., Russia, Britain and France met in three capitals to discuss the crisis. In Washington, officials judged the Middle East the one place right now where a confrontation with the Russians could occur, and a White House aide reported that the turbulent region is uppermost in President Johnson's mind during the final 18 days of his Administration...
WHILE politics preoccupied the nation last week with the approach of the conventions, Lyndon Johnson's energies were absorbed by problems on two broad fronts of foreign policy. At midweek, he flew off to Honolulu to discuss the problem that one of the presidential candidates will undoubtedly find uppermost in his mind the day after inauguration-Viet Nam. Even as Johnson was conferring with South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu, the showdown over Czechoslovakia brought a sobering reminder that, for the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. alike, Europe remains a potentially dangerous arena. It was also...
...feel so much better about myself," declared Mary Elizabeth, 21, explaining her starry-eyed dissent, which is echoed by her twin brother Tim's adamant refusal to accept either a student deferment or the draft. Uppermost in prompting her decision to renounce martial ways is her intense Roman Catholic faith; her horror of war was reinforced by the sight of Marines in boot camp at Parris Island, S.C., and "the lost look in their eyes...
Peace has always been uppermost in the Ibis's mind. He feels man must learn to live in harmony if he is to live at all. Yet he was a staunch advocate of preparedness in the late thirties, as one by one he saw the dominoes of disaster spell out their hideous gavotte...