Word: utterness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President was supremely aware that for all the advice he received, the final choice and the responsibility for its consequences were his alone. "One man has the decision to make," said a high-ranking U.S. official in Saigon, "and until he does, no one here is going to utter a squeak. The ultimate implications of that decision are simply...
...even understand the collection of words attributed to me in Wednesday's CRIMSON article about the American Law Institute's proposed Prearraignment Code. I certainly did not utter them...
...trouble is, Male Companion's script might well have been adapted from the same book. Indolence as a theme leads easily to a certain aimlessness of execution, just as nothingness leads to naught. Director De Broca's spontaneity and Cassel's utter abandon with a throng of acquiescent beauties meet every challenge except the vital one of squeezing triumph out of a trifle...
Reagan's candidacy has already drawn the fire of the other G.O.P. hopefuls. "I don't intend to go into any background," says George Christopher, a moderate Republican and former mayor of San Francisco, "except his complete and utter lack of qualifications." Says Laughlin Waters, former U.S. attorney in Los Angeles and another moderate contender: "I'm all for on-the-job training but not at the gubernatorial level." Reagan has refused to be drawn into an argument with his fellow Republicans, says: "I will have no word of criticism for any Republican." He believes that California...
Fatal Split. Why did she want to destroy Dilke? Author Jenkins argues that despite his protestation of utter innocence, Dilke actually did have an affair with Mrs. Crawford before she was married; that Dilke refused to marry her; that she ruined him because he had "ruined" her. But nobody knows for certain. What is certain, or seems so on the evidence Jenkins supplies, is that Dilke was the only man who could hold the Liberals together. Within a year of his political demise the party split, and Gladstone's last administration foundered in failed majorities. One woman...