Word: woeful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the lotteries have proved particularly profitable so far. In New York, receipts are running a woeful 75% below estimates. Various reasons for the lag are advanced -not enough outlets, weak promotion, bad odds (1,000,000 to 1 for top prize of $100,000), and the unexciting legality of the whole thing. Some gamblers feel that their pastime has to be more attuned to the raffish ways of Moe the Gyp than to the clean-cut operation of Nelson the Rock. The mystique has to do with smoky back rooms and the smell of the paddocks, with whispered hunches...
...Pope coupled his demands for international economic planning with a surprisingly sharp attack on the "woeful system" of unfettered capitalism. "It is unfortunate that a system has been constructed which considers profit as the key motive for economic progress, competition as the supreme law of economics, and private ownership of the means of production as an absolute right that has no limits and carries no corresponding social obligation." By contrast, there was little said about the dangers and evils of socialism or Communism, except for a mild warning that Christians should be wary of systems that are "based upon...
...House was determined to make Powell's punishment fit his offenses -and they were numerous. Since he was first elected in 1944, Powell has cheerfully collected enemies with his arrogance, his blatant junketing and his spoiler's role in upsetting arduously achieved compromises. To this woeful record, two investigatory panels in recent months added evidence of payroll irregularities and misappropriation of congressional travel funds. To top it all off, he was unable to enter his home state, thanks to jail sentences imposed by New York courts for civil and criminal contempt...
...charges Manhattan Lawyer James Marshall in Law and Psychology in Conflict (Bobbs-Merrill; $5.95). A leading civil rights lawyer in the 1930s, Marshall, 70, is a well-known political scientist. In his sobering new book, he finds the U.S. trial system guilty of woeful ignorance of elementary psychology. Not only is truth highly elusive in "a field dominated by hostility," he says, but the law wrongly assumes that witnesses can "see accurately, hear accurately and recall accurately." Man is so subjective, Marshall argues, that the law's naive reliance on his "factual" testimony is almost laughable...
...student movement been without its own internal political disagreements. Because some members of the Woeful Educators imagine that the spontaneity and spirit of free criticism will be stifled by official recognition, they have spurned the suggestion that they ally themselves with The Student Association's Committee on Academic Policy. On the other hand, many of the WE group argue that the most effective way of getting action on the forthcoming reports will be to submit them through the Student Association's SCAP as the representative voice of the students...