Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CAESAR AT THE RUBICON: A PLAY ABOUT POLITICS, by Theodore H. White. A fine political journalist turns to ancient history for an engaging study of "the way men use other men to reach their goals...
...time of his appointment, did little to justify the nickname of "young Napoleon." Excessively cautious to begin with, he was reduced to timidity by his primitive version of the CIA, whose intelligence reports pictured small, ill-equipped Southern armies as fearsome hordes. "If General McClellan does not want to use the Army," Lincoln said at one point, "I would like to borrow...
Unstinted Adulation. Bobby's key phrases-"We can do better"; "This is a time to begin again"-are borrowed almost verbatim from Jack's vintage-'60 speeches. He makes the same effective use of statistics, from rates of birth to frequency of rat bites; he, too, sprinkles his talks with erudite quotations, from Archimedes and Camus, Goethe and Shaw. And like Jack's, his political persona is considerably more adventurous than his explicit statements and positions...
...Warsaw protest rally. But it also printed a reply to each point, starting with the students' bedrock demand for the enforcement of constitutional guarantees of free speech and assembly. While allowing that some of the complaints might be justified, the paper warned that such freedoms "cannot be used against the character of our socialist sys tem." As for the students' protest against police brutality during the rioting, the paper came straight to the point. "When chopping wood," it said, "splinters must fly." The students got a new ally, how ever, in Poland's Roman Catholic Episcopate, which...
...replace the "hopelessly antiquated and unsafe" old equipment, the Athletic Department has ordered a sidehorse, a high-bar, a set of parallel bars, three mats suitable for tumbling, and a complete spotting and suspension system for safety. The club also has the use of a set of rings and the trampoline at the IAB, Landau said...