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Reith's most corrosive rancor was reserved for Churchill. Stranded in his "useless position" at Transport, Reith seethed while Churchill put together his "rotten" wartime coalition full of "humbugging and sycophantic" ministers. "It is dreadfully difficult to trust in God as I should," he wrote when Churchill took over the War Ministry himself rather than offering it to him. Increasingly frustrated by his view from the sidelines, Reith worked out his rage toward Churchill in a string of scribbled epithets ("cur," "coward," "loathsome cad," "blasted thug") and capped it with a curse: "To hell and torture with Churchill...
...that he will not seek the Democratic nomination, will continue to travel the country as before. Kennedy has put the problem this way: "If someone in my position doesn't realize the danger, he'd be a fool. But anybody who lets that danger paralyze him is useless." On the day that Ford was in Sacramento, Kennedy was in Seattle to dedicate a cancer center...
Fires erupt everywhere in the city, ignited by short circuits and fed by leaking gas mains. Fire fighters quickly scramble into action, but their trucks cannot negotiate torn-up streets. Because of broken water mains, fire hydrants are useless. At least half the city's phones are dead. The rescuers are further hampered by the destruction of medical supplies-including vital blood plasma-and the collapse of half of the Bay Area's hospitals...
...discernible but obviously of innocuous material on how to use a chest parachute, how to use a fire extinguisher, drawings of microphones-all found in standard Army and Navy manuals of the period. Now 70, Hiss said that the three films should help exonerate him because they "certainly are useless for espionage purposes." Almost any espionage haul, however, nets useless along with critical information; the films showed mainly that Hiss's prosecutors were selective in their evidence, as prosecutors generally are. They also showed that Nixon may have made more of a brouhaha than justified by the films...
...would say worried. I'm concerned about a general movement in this country about the status of minorities and women. I'm concerned about the amount of effort, the scores of speeches, the number of articles that seem aimed at telling the country and the world it's useless to implement the principles of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments...