Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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This will be a difficult task. Difficult because at times our next President must tell the people not what they want to hear but what they need to hear. Why, for example, it may be just as essential to the national interest to build a dam in India as in California. It will be difficult, too, because we Americans have always been able to see and understand the danger presented by missiles and airplanes and bombs, but we found it hard to recognize the even more deadly danger of the propaganda that warps the mind, the economic offensive that softens...
...Negro voters in the county and singles out ten who are said to be "troublemakers"; another lists 70 new voters who registered last June, segregates the 25 Negroes among them. Braving the icy stares and stony silence of the white people, the FBI men studied the lists with profound interest. All the while, the summer sun beat down on Fayette County and on the sign that rises conspicuously along U.S. Highway 64 at the entrance to the county seat of Somerville. It says: REPENT OR PERISH...
...reached the respectable state of a grandfather and who therefore is supposed by some not to take any notice of or interest in such things, I approach you with diffidence. I have, Sir, however, of recent months received the impression that a remarkable transformation has overtaken our womanhood, both young and not so young. To my eyes, watching them going about their daily tasks, they appear to have flowered in an extraordinary fashion...
This intriguing dreaminess is, of course, harmless, but other Democratic planks are less so. The traditional clear-the-rascals-out clause is particularly ill-considered; it reads "We shall reform the processes of government in all branches . . . we will clean out corruption and conflicts of interest and improve Government service." This is the sort of thing for which Harry Truman very properly reprimanded Adlai Stevenson in 1952; surely there is no longer any need either to invoke or to exorcise the Jenner-McCarthy spirit...
...Only Man. The dashing legend surrounding the Earp brothers-Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan-has been debunked before, but not from this special feminine viewpoint. That is what lends interest to this sagebrush history, based largely on the reminiscences of the late Allie Sullivan Earp, who sat down with Author Waters in 1936 to recall the days when her family's menfolk were the scourge of Tombstone, Ariz...