Word: various
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decisions in the White House were made by lawyers, none of whom proved "especially familiar with the social-science theory on which the various positions were based...
...invasion by Soviet troops, and it represented no small effort. The Soviets switched back on all their coldwar jamming devices, which some experts number in the hundreds. They consistently tried to blank out the Voice of America, the BBC and West Germany's Deutsche Welle, and at various other times jammed French, Italian, Swedish, Turkish and even Monacan stations. That massive Russian station break still persists...
...impossible except on the ground of adultery, a legal procedure regarded as unthinkably damaging socially. A dreadful, though never mutually acknowledged, duel began. As Effie came to see it, Ruskin was bent on forcing her to leave him not merely by his neglect but by throwing her at various gentlemen friends, including Millais, hoping to involve her in what she quaintly referred to as a "scrape." She, on her part, meticulously maintained a spotless reputation. For years she had not dared to tell anyone that she was, in the euphemism of the age, a wife in name only. Eventually...
...commercial photographer from Baton Rouge, La., ran into financial difficulties while setting up his business in 1957 and had to defer payment on various accounts. He has since become successful enough to buy-on credit-an airplane for his business, and Dun & Bradstreet rates his borrowing capacity at about $35,000. But three months ago his wife was unable to charge two cans of paint for the family swimming pool because of the eleven-year-old local credit-bureau report...
...Harvard, Galbraith said, "crises have been avoided by ad hoc action while various window-dressing efforts at student-Faculty consultation have been contrived." He added that such ad hoc action would not survive a serious emergency and that student-Faculty committees will not be taken seriously for long...