Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...avenue of compromise, was now plainly little more than a messenger boy for le grand Charles. "It is being said that we broke off the negotiations." he declared. "In reality, our responsibility has been that of making clear that the negotiations have been taking place in a vacuum since October, and of having said that it is preferable to face the facts." Then he echoed the boss again: "When Britain can accept all the requirements of the Treaty of Rome, nothing can stop her from entering the Common Market. But it is upon her and not on us that...
There is no such thing as a vacuum in politics or government. If the rights of a sovereign state and local units of government are taken away, they will be replaced by a totalitarian government--a police state. Only our Constitution stands between the people and a dictatorship. If politicians are allowed to circumvent, misconstrue, cripple or disobey the Constitution, then Constitutional government is in jeopardy and the liberty and freedom and right of every American citizen to the pursuit of happiness are menaced...
...Berkeley is even convinced that some of the first objects that condensed are still around and can be identified. They are "chondrules"-round, pea-sized or even smaller globules of stony material. When they happened to be embedded in meteorites, the tiny pebbles were preserved by the cold and vacuum of interplanetary space and lasted for billions of years...
...Seine at the Left. In the austere Berggruen Galeries the trio waltzed in, snapped up 50 lithographs. Steaming into another gallery, they flabbergasted the owner by buying up, at 33% off, all the works of an unknown Sunday painter. Within hours after their arrival in Paris, word of their vacuum-cleaner technique spread around the town, and the work began coming to them in their hotel. "They've started bringing their mothers', wives', brothers' and ex-wives' paintings in now," said Price at one point. Their average rate of buying was 500 works...
...baffling the grader or fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we first note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...