Word: utterance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wholeheartedly support Goldwater if Barry were to get the 1964 Republican nomination. "I know of no Republican presidential candidate on the horizon whom I could not support at present," he said. "No matter whom the convention nominates, that man can be sure of my fervent support." He did, however, utter an implicit warning against Goldwater's becoming too closely associated with the wayway right. Said Eisenhower: "I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road." Even more, he said...
What many Tories overlooked in the scramble to "denobilize" their leader is that Home's virtues are incurably those of the aristocrat: honor, charm, utter self-confidence, the dedication-and none of the condescension-of no blesse oblige...
...flanking thrust, the army men staging the games plotted military academy textbook tactics-with nuclear trimmings. The invading reds began the show by firing nuclear artillery at the blue defenders, supposedly vaporizing the town of Pon-tarlier (pop. 16,000). Smoke machines puffed up mushroom clouds to simulate utter destruction. The blues responded by dispatching a couple of Mirage VIs to drop 60-kiloton bombs on a red town of equivalent size. Meanwhile, back at the battlefield, the blues sprayed 15 tactical nuclear weapons on the reds in an area ten miles long and ten miles wide. More puffs...
...Utter Destitution." The American people, he writes, have too easily swallowed the Galbraithian notion that the U.S. has all the production it needs. Americans have become "defeatist" about their own economy and in the last decade have settled for one of the lowest rates of growth in the world, which Myrdal calculates at a meager 1 %, a figure below the estimates of most other economists. Seven percent of the American people live in what Myrdal calls "utter destitution," e.g., individuals with an annual income under $1,000, families with an annual income under...
Brown, another one of the insurgents this year, had a wonderful time welcoming John Pont to the Ivy League last week. To everyone's utter amazement the Bruins licked Yale 12-7 in the Bowl for its first Ivy triumph in three years...