Word: wording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Neuberger urged all citizens who oppose the war to approve the referendum, "even though one may not agree with every word in the text...
...boards is comedy. If, and forgive me for this fussy stipulation, only if Miss Durkin is off-stage what she is on, I should like to marry her. I might not have included this declaration in these columns but for a standing belief in the efficacy of the printed word...
...Flexibility" was the word used by Mobil Oil Chairman Albert L. Nickerson, who is also chairman of the Business Council, an advisory group for the White House. When Middle East hostilities either slowed or stopped production at Mobil's holdings in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran, the company merely dipped deeper into its vast North American reserves and substituted Western Hemisphere petroleum for Middle East oil that could not reach Europe quickly because of the Suez Canal closure. As a result, Nickerson reported third-quarter earnings up 6.8%, to $93.8 million. Jersey Standard Chairman Michael L. Haider announced that...
Washington Subconscious. Abruptly, in 1946, Washington began heeding Kennan's alarums. For months, he recalls, "I had done little else but pluck people's sleeves," warning them of Russia's intentions, but it was "like talking to a stone." Then, in an 8,000-word telegram to Washington-"neatly divided, like an 18th century Protestant sermon, into five separate parts"-Kennan reiterated all that he had said before, and everybody began listening. Precisely why is unclear. The subconscious motivations of official Washington, he believes, are as intricate "as those of the most complicated of Sigmund Freud...
...however, in "11 Outlined Epitaphs" he announced the passing of that earlier Bob Dylan. Guthrie was dead. Dylan was free, "without ghosts/by my side/ t betray my childishness/ t leadeth me down false trails/ an maketh me drink from muddy waters." Away from Muddy Waters into the wind! "A word, a tune, a story, a line/ keys in the wind t unlock my mind/ an t grant my closet thoughts back yard...