Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their Vietnamese brother foes, the Viet Cong offered a respite, proclaiming a five-day cease-fire during Tet, Viet Nam's festive New Year's holiday. Going along with the Reds, the government called a virtual halt to its own military operations. Troops poured into Saigon exploding firecrackers and firing rifles into the air (to ward off evil spirits), and the war ground to a strange near-standstill...
Beyond the foyer, the walls are a virtual tapestry of contemporary art; the furniture, mostly antique except for braces of modern Mies and Eames chairs, cowers in the center of the rooms to make place for paintings. Even Scull's eldest son, Jonathan, 15, covers the walls of his room with his own collection of junior-sized examples of Pop that he buys by installments with his allowance. The apartment is so cluttered with art derived from familiar objects that frequently guests pick up an ordinary cigarette box and ask who the artist...
Most experts give Defferre little chance of beating De Gaulle, now or in 1965. He is, after all, a virtual unknown. The most recent public opinion poll shows le grand Charles leading 61% to 38%, which Defferre finds not too discouraging. Campaigning hard in Paris and Bordeaux last week, Defferre was refusing to woo the Communists because, as he put it, "I couldn't sleep at night." To the Communist threat that they may run their own candidate, Defferre replies that this would simply play into the hands of the Gaullists and as sure the election of De Gaulle...
Sixteen hundred fans, the largest crowd to witness a Harvard basketball game in nearly two decades, will jam the IAB tonight to see the man who has become not a legend, but a virtual deity in his own time: Bill Bradley...
...battle royal" among the clergy. In the Anglo-Catholic Church Times, the Venerable Guy Mayfield, Archdeacon of Hastings, summed up the report as "sometimes unhappy and amateurish and sometimes superfluous." Roman Catholics and Methodist ministers spoke up in envy of the freedom of speech that went with the "virtual irremovability" of the Anglican vicar. But nearly everyone agreed that something had to be done about the outdated freehold system, and, in the Laborite Daily Herald, the Rev. Nick Stacey of Woolwich, crying "Reform or die," called for a "revolution at the vicarage...