Word: utters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course even with the best local conditions success is hard to come by. I suppose what I miss most in The Barrios of Manta is an account of the periods of utter lassitude which can strike and immobolize Americans abroad. The days--and there could be a whole row of them--when local food plays havoc with one's intestines, and when the kids in English class or the women in nutrition class give the same wrong answer, or no answer at all, for the hundredth time: these are part of anybody's Peace Corps experience. How to deal with...
...Chou Enlai, who was then the head of the Chinese Communist mission. Over steaming cups of tea, Chou professed to be weary of the negotiations, said that he would like to visit the U.S. "to study your impressive techniques of modern production." Wrote Luce later: "I must record the utter confidence as well as the good humor with which Chou En-lai spoke to me. While he didn't say so in so many words, I had the chilling feeling that he expected soon to be in control of all China. At the end of my stay, I figured...
...Last week the Supreme Court refused to review it. Whether the Justices think the law constitutional or whether they did not want to tackle that issue now may never be known. By their refusal to act, however, they left standing a new rule that the First Amendment right to utter burning words does not protect the act of burning draft cards...
...dreamed of the splendors of genius, a lighted hall, applause, wreaths-if you knew what my vanity is-what a savage vulture, how it eats my heart." He agonizes over "the poverty of languages, which have scarcely one word for a hundred thoughts." And he asks: "Do you ever utter a sentence just as you think it? Will you write a novel as you have conceived...
...colleague: "He was no angry liberal in the ideological sense. He was in fact a pretty conservative fellow. But he did not like to see little people pushed around. It was that simple with him. He didn't care what color the little people were. He held in utter contempt those political poses designed to conceal social brutalities in a region that deserved better leadership, and he didn't scare...