Word: mightiest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...form of "national Communism" that left him out of both the Chinese and the Soviet orbits, but prompted both powers to court him. With the limited resources of a tiny impoverished Asian nation?and with vast help from Peking and Moscow?he had withstood the enormous firepower of the mightiest industrial nation on earth. In so doing, he had forced one U.S. President out of office and tarnished the bright memory of another. He had reached deep into American society through a war that affects the disaffected young, the restless blacks, the threatened guardians of old values?the country...
THIS monster of a land," he wrote in 1962, "this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm...
...only beginning to understand that lesson. The most divisive issues of the day?the baffling war in Viet Nam, the Negro's bitter contest for his rights?take much of their heat from the national refusal to entertain the mere possibility of defeat. Why can't the world's mightiest military power vanquish a tiny and underdeveloped Asian state? Why does it suffer a humiliating act of piracy by the North Koreans? Why don't the cops just go in there and re-establish law and order...
...mightiest minnow of them all was Debbie Meyer, the baby of the bunch, 5 ft. 6½ in. tall, 111 Ibs., just turned 15-and already the possessor of three world records. Daughter of a Sacramento, Calif., plant manager, Debbie has been splashing around pools ever since she was six months old, and her current training regimen calls for at least 12,000 meters of swimming a day, six days a week. All she had to shoot at last week were her own monthold world records in the 400-meter free style...
...rare chance as Prince of Wales to mingle with all manner of his future subjects - and they with him. After the war, he traveled the world on a series of triumphal grand tours from Africa to India to the U.S. and New Zealand - representing his father, who ruled the mightiest empire ever assembled...