Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theory, he cites Roche's law: "Those who can conspire haven't got the time; those who do conspire haven't got the talent." Last week, in a letter to the London Times Literary Supplement congratulating Oxford Don John Sparrow for his incisive, 18,000-word defense of the Warren Commission Report (TIME, Dec. 22), Roche raised a point that has been overlooked-or ignored-by the report's myriad critics...
...offense. Saigon newspapers charged Martin with being a "colonialist," and demanded his expulsion. One paper ran a poem accusing him of every known vice and concluding: "You s.o.b., and your father and your mother and all your family and all your ancestors." More direct action was also threatened. Getting word that ARVN soldiers planned to sack the villa in which Newsweek is quartered, Martin had bars put on the windows...
...clear conscience about deserting the ranks of conservative columnists because so many others had joined up. "Conservatism," he wrote, "is receiving almost equal billing with liberal writers who have for so long dominated the editorial pages of our country's newspapers." He even had a kind word for certain liberals. "I have a strong feeling that a new liberal philosophy will grow in this country based more upon the thinking of men like Daniel Moynihan and Max Lerner...
...spotted an unfamiliar blob of light in the constellation of Ophiuchus. Five minutes later, 240 miles away in Kochi, Tsutomu Seki located the same strange object. Both checked their star maps, then hurriedly mounted their bicycles and pedaled furiously to the nearest telegraph office. There they dispatched the word to the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory. Incredibly, the same two amateur astronomers who had independently but almost simultaneously discovered 1965's famous and brilliant Ikeya-Seki comet had discovered another...
Several of the five took offense at what they regarded as Goldberg's attack on their word. "I'm not on trial," Councillor Thomas W. Danehy replied. Mahoney then had the memorandum read into the record and instructed the city clerk to add the five names...