Word: utterness
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...Japan's desired goal of political and economic hegemony over the area from the Kuriles to Australia, which triggered the Pacific war, was thwarted by the industrial superiority of America. To have challenged a vast materially and financially endowed nation was an act of utter desperation. It's now emerging that Japan is being asked by the U.S. to share the defense responsibility over the same area that the Land of the Rising Sun coveted over a quarter-century ago [March...
...example, being challenged by mingling with high school seniors. No marks are given. Instead, teachers write an evaluation of each student's work. For the most part, attendance is not compulsory. Informality and responsibility are emphasized. Students can smoke in class, call teachers by their first names, and utter four-letter words without inhibition...
...understand to some extent the exodus and the reasons you ascribe for it. I cannot comprehend the utter rejection of the ancient church in bitterness by those who formerly served it. It's almost like renouncing one's mother just because she's a bit behind the times...
...Kunstler and the Chicago Seven are far from alone in holding Judge Julius Hoffman's court in utter contempt. The fact of the defendants' guilt or innocence concerning the conspiracy charges is less important to me than the facts of the trial itself. It was a mockery of justice and should be condemned...
Indeed, it is entirely possible that Nixon's sharp political sense tells him that public passions against massive integration are running high enough to produce a vast rupture of race relations if pushed further just now. He apparently feels that if he were to utter now the kind of moralistic rhetoric and vast promises that Lyndon Johnson employed as President, he would only make matters worse. There are many angry lower-middle-class whites who live on the raw frontiers of neighborhood and school integration. They feel that they are bearing an unfair share of the nation's racial burdens...