Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asia have kept factories humming; and the very high rate of capital investment is possible since Japan spends little on armaments. But major credit belongs to the Japanese themselves. In a typically Japanese swing from one extreme to another, they shook off the apathy of defeat, and with skill, hard work and enthusiasm began rebuilding at home and recapturing markets abroad...
...least eight West German ambassadors were Nazi Party members. About a third of all German judges were connected in one way or another with the Hitler regime. But, said Chancellor Adenauer last week, the world should recognize that the majority of Germans had served Naziism "only under the hard pressure of dictatorship...
House Divided. Though still the strongest political organization in the land, the Communists no longer enjoy the unquestioning popularity that immediately followed the abortive military revolt in Mosul last March. They pressed so hard for admission to Kassem's Cabinet that the Premier's right-wing supporters rose, and fighting broke out in Baghdad. In July the first anniversary of the revolution was marred by a savage Communist-inspired massacre of rightists in Kirkuk. Shocked, Kassem ordered a roundup of Communist leaders-while characteristically taking two party-liners into his Cabinet...
Just exactly what our equivocator's answer has to do with the original question is hard to say. The equivocator writes an essay about the point, but never on it. Consequently, the grader often mentally assumes the right answer is known by the equivocator and marks the essay as an extension of the point rather than a complete irrelevance. The artful equivocation must imply the writer knows the right answer, but it must never get definite enough to eliminate any possibilities...
...only failed once. It was at the Cosmopolitan Club dance. Actually, he hadn't tried too hard; most of the evening had been spent at a funeral home asking the manager if he could see some of the more attractive specimens. When he finally got to the dance (a trifle sobered) there was no entrance. He tried to tell the matron that his daughter had to be home at 12 and he wanted to go in and get her. She didn't fall for it, so he walked down the block yelling "nunc cosmopolitan solum stat...