Word: remarkably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beads, they returned with some shocking snippets of overheard conversation. As one of the main floats in the Mardi Gras procession passed by, with black men and women dressed as slaves spinning batons and running alongside the float, one well-dressed, slightly inebriated New Orleans citizen was heard to remark, "They really do look like monkeys, don't they?" The remark at first stunned the Harvard visitors, but as the three-day festivities went on and more comments expressing similar attitudes toward New Orleans blacks were heard, the students fancied themselves as anthropologists visiting a foreign land, and the shock...
...peace settlement to Israeli treaties with Syria and Jordan, which have refused to join the negotiations; these two points, as well as the proposed reliance on U.N. forces, may not meet easy acceptance within Israel, but the proposal did lead one U.S. Senator who is normally pro-Israel to remark: "If I were Begin, I'd sign an agreement tomorrow based on these guarantees...
...naive observer might remark that if these things are really such glaring problems, Congress would have dealt with them long ago. But a look at U.S. foreign policy reveals many of the same serious problems that were with us during the '60s and even before. The U.S. is illegally occupying a canal in Central America. Arms negotiations are used as an excuse to set ridiculously high quotas on expensive nuclear weaponry, with nobody even considering large scale nuclear disarmaments or controls. Our government supports dictatorships around the world and our intelligence agencies employ deplorable tactics to topple others. We ignore...
Peking has tried to persuade Hanoi and Phnom-Penh to negotiate a ceasefire. Although each side accuses the other of aggression, the Chinese have been carefully ambiguous in apportioning blame. Teng Hsiao-p'ing's most recent remark on that subject was a masterpiece of inscrutability: "Whoever provoked the conflict will come to no good...
When Griffin Bell announced William Webster's appointment to the FBI post, he noted proudly that it had been made "without regard to political party." One motivation for the remark: both he and President Carter had become embroiled in a controversy over their desire to sack a Republican, David Marston, as U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia...