Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dragged him off to jail. In Amman, NBC Correspondent Robert Conley was picked up by Jordanian troops, who accused him of taking pictures -even though he had no camera. Stranded at airports around Europe, many correspondents never even got near the Arab countries. Those who did were kept virtual prisoners in their hotels; what little they sent out was rigorously censored. After Egypt severed relations with the U.S., all 22 American correspondents were ordered out of the country. Awaiting transportation, they were forbidden to file stories. Only the New York Times's Eric Pace managed to continue sending dispatches...
...thing, it promises to produce a big increase in world trade, just as the late President Kennedy hoped when he initiated the negotiations in 1963 as a way of reinforcing political ties between the U.S. and Europe. As some economists see it, the Kennedy Round also means the virtual demise of tariffs as an important obstacle to trade. On thousands of manufactured goods-including autos, machinery, ceramics, cameras and hats-most industrial countries agreed to slash their tariffs by the full 50% that Kennedy originally sought. As a result, the average tariff wall around U.S., British and Canadian imports will...
...distasteful to giver and receiver alike," said Bobby. "We have created a system of handouts, a second-rate set of social services which damages and demeans its recipients and destroys any semblance of human dignity that they have managed to retain through their adversity." Unless the U.S. achieves "a virtual revolution in the organization of our social services," he warned, "the result could be the ripping asunder of the already thin fabric of American life...
...72nd green to beat Arnold Palmer for the winner's check. Considering that Palmer, at 37 and with $87,073 already in his till this year, is playing the best golf of his career, those two defeats are all the more remarkable because they were engineered by a virtual unknown who turned to golf because he was a failure at basketball...
...pride is undoubtedly justified; few other politicians in this country can claim to have overpowered a Senate minority leader and a former vice-president. To a man confident of his vote-getting ability and elated by triumphs over two political giants, the million-vote loss to a virtual unknown last November must have been unbearably humiliating...