Word: lurching
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...compatibility of careers and marriage for women, Judge Allen sticks to the middle of the road. "It's all right for a woman to enter a profession," she asserts vigorously, but then qualifies, "If she has a family she can't go off and leave it in the lurch. I believe that as much as anybody." Her own career has sometimes been a lonely one. "It would have been pleasant to have had another woman on the Court of Appeals," the Judge notes a little wistfully. She denies that her sex has in any way constricted her career. "Some people...
...Cuba, and will accept another debate if he can be sure Cuba will be the topic. Stir into this frenetic brew of telegrams Kennedy's assertion that the vice-President is "afraid" to debate with him and Nixon's statement that such an assertion is "sophomoric" and the lurch toward a fifth debate grows overpowering in its momentum...
...lots of nightclubs), theater buffs (1960 is the year for the Oberammergau Passion Play), stamp collectors (London's International Exhibition in July), golfers (following the tournaments and playing the best courses in the British Isles). For James Joyce fans, it is even possible to be conducted on a lurch through Dublin in the steps of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, taking two hours or two days, depending on how many "balls of malt" (Irish whisky) are downed en route. Touring cost for two: $6 in a horse-drawn Dublin cab. For $2.50 from West Berlin there is a guaranteed...
...with nationalist aims. To Verwoerd, who edited a pro-Nazi newspaper during World War II and might have been expected to choose his historical comparisons more carefully, Macmillan's attitude smacked of Munich-like appeasement. "The West is abdicating in Africa and leaving the white man in the lurch," he complained. "It is robbing the black masses of training and all the advantages the white man brought to this dark continent. Africa will return to heathenism and the strengthening of Mohammedanism." If inexperienced African leaders of new countries flood the United Nations, Verwoerd added, the West will have...