Word: expendable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mississippi, however, no thanks to the Administration. What the Administration approach fails to recognize is the ability of most white Southerners to adjust, once they find desegregation inevitable. A.F. Summer, Mississippi's attorney general, faced up to that last week, saying that he was confident that Mississippians would expend the vast effort needed "to keep quality education going in our state." But, he added, "a lot of people will have their lives changed...
From Big Deal on Madonna Street to How to Steal a Million, film makers have been trying to perfect the genre known in the trade as "caper comedies," films which center around a masterminded robbery. Like most criminals, however, the creators expend all their energies on the heist and not nearly enough building their characters...
...moon is also a natural, orbiting Cape Kennedy. To blast off, a spacecraft need overcome a pull of gravity only one-sixth as strong as the earth's, and does not have to expend any energy to push through a thick atmosphere...
...part has adhered to his strategy of avoiding congressional fights that either promise little chance of victory or encourage Democratic retaliation on other issues. Only his anti-ballistic missile decision has stimulated deep controversy, and on that subject he faced trouble no matter which direction he took. Rather than expend energies and political capital on brawls with Congress, Nixon is hoarding his resources. It does not make for a dynamic posture. It leaves him open to charges such as Hubert Humphrey's last week, that the President has failed "to grasp the urgency of present circumstances." But it does...
Until recently, Brazilian students were prone to expend their youthful idealism on attacking their universities. Ironically, most of them ignored the nearby favelas, the big-city slums that cry out for reform. Instead, they seemed to spend the winter rioting, the summer on the beaches or touring Europe. All too many were privileged rebels without a cause-a familiar phenomenon at other universities throughout the world...