Word: veriest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There can be no innocent bystanders at a time of civil disturbance or the repression thereof. The involvement of press and television personnel is even more stupid than that of the public. The veriest Fourth Estate tyro should know that a police officer faced with an unruly mob is too busy to check his press card. The sanctimoniousness of McCarthy and Ribicoff, particularly, was too obvious. The police force in Chicago was the only thing that made it possible for McCarthy's heart to bleed in comparative privacy and for Ribicoff to speak of "police brutality" and "Gestapo tactics...
...able to solve the problems. We can take the bad with the good." Lady Bird's "philosopher" adds with hill-country fatalism: "You must learn to live the very day you've got; you're only going to have it once." Facing the veriest day of her young life this week, Luci was clearly determined to savor every precious moment of it, public and private...