Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have "listened to the news and checked it out with one or two people to see whether it was accurate. And then I would have said, 'Let's keep informed, and we'll meet in the morning.'" It was at best ill-timed frivolity to needle the Administration, at worst an instance of absurd misjudgment. At the suggestion of more realistic advisers, McCarthy subsequently "amended" his statement to criticize Russia and make clear that he did con sider the invasion a serious matter...
...course. Some of the shock feeling is caused by a kind of historical provincialism: one often tends to feel that one's own time, one's particular moment, is the worst, the most significant ever. Historians are cooler about it. With cosmic detachment, they insist that the only crucial years are those providing great turning points in human affairs. For all its banner headlines, 1968 does not begin to compare with, say, 1848, when seismic revolutions cracked the old European order in the Austrian Empire, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark and The Netherlands. To date, the 20th century...
...taxi drivers and owners of private cars, who raced through the medieval streets with their horns wailing warning. Soon the roar of jet engines reverberated through the night skies; Russian planes were flying ominously low. At 1:10 a.m., Radio Prague interrupted a program of music to confirm the worst: "Yesterday, on August 20, about 11 p.m., troops of the Soviet Union, the Polish People's Republic and the Hungarian People's Republic, the German Democratic People's Republic and the Bulgarian People's Republic crossed the frontiers of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic...
...Sportscaster Roger Couderc. The purge, a repudiation of the government s pledge of amnesty during the strike and a violation of the French constitution, was described by Le Nouvel Observateur as "the scandal of scandals of 1968. Of all the humiliations inflicted by the regime, this one seems the worst...
...confrontation with the university as classes open, on the theory that administrators will react harshly, thus generating sympathy for the militants. Others have proposed more subtie harassments, such as gumming up registration by filing wrong information on computer cards. In any case, the administration is preparing for the worst. Last week workmen were installing thick, rockproof Plexiglas windows in Kirk's Low Library office...