Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kissinger insinuates that I was "on to" something. True. I was "on to ' hoping to find a man less arrogant and more coherent than the one portrayed in those days by the American press. I failed, and my interview with him thus remains the worst I have ever done, the most boring, in every sense...
...with Tehran and with the few American officials there who were not in the students' hands. In New York City, the United Nations Security Council convened in special closed session to search for a solution. Said Jimmy Carter to reporters on Thursday: "These last two days have been the worst I've had." Secretary of State Cyrus Vance counseled the nation grimly and correctly: "It is a time not for rhetoric, but for quiet, careful and firm diplomacy...
...Administration?and for President Carter personally?the seizure of the embassy was a nightmare. At its very worst, it could lead to the deaths of the Americans, and endanger the 300 or so other U.S. citizens still in Iran?all of whom were advised by the State Department to leave the country as expeditiously as possible. However the crisis ends, it seems likely to enhance the impression of American helplessness...
...advances of historical studies in the century are fascinating, but trying to understand them without the facts is absurd. Harvard graduate students trying to wring "arguments" out of undergraduates concerning subjects of which they were almost totally ignorant was something I witnessed on numerous occasions. The worst example. I came across was a Government course that proposed to teach the political economy of France. Italy, Britain and Germany over a period of several centuries in one semester. Since the majority of the students taking the course didn't have a clue about European history, let alone European polities, the result...
...THEIR WORST, political campaigns are not unlike trashy novels. In large measure they consist of contrived drama, timely coincidence, tawdry innuendo and caricatured protagonists indulging in fantastical posturing. They are memorable mainly for the deja vu they inspire. And they are getting longer and longer. And longer. If a presidential contest were a book, it would be thousands of pages long...