Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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However, there are several phrases which had the effect on us, while reading them, of sitting down to a delightfully relaxing manicure occasionally punctuated by hot bamboo slivers driven up the nails. The phrase in question is (referring to the score) ". some fairly forgettable tunes...
From the Sidelines. Among domestic issues, the biggest question up for debate will be the role of the Federal Govern ment in the management of the nation's economy. Democrats have switched from depression-born bread-and-butter issues to "jam-and-jelly" issues on how the U.S. should live with its prosperity. As they see it, the Government should intervene to promote faster "growth" and shift resources from private spending to the "public sector." Nixon dismisses the idea of set ting a specific national growth-rate goal as mere "growthmanship," urges tax reform, and a chance...
...duty to make his life worthwhile. Says Rose: "Joe told the children that they had plenty of advantages, but that these advantages carry with them certain obligations." Like the English gentry of the 18th century, the Kennedys expected each son to excel in a different career. There was no question that young Joe, a bright, confident boy and a natural leader, would go into politics and in due course become President of the U.S. As a 25-year-old member of the Massachusetts delegation to the Democratic Convention of 1940, Joe Jr. footnoted political history by being the last holdout...
...came to Paris, would be free to move about, whether he could be sure of treating with President de Gaulle personally, whether F.L.N. negotiators could confer with Ben Bella, the F.L.N. leader whom the French kidnaped four years ago on a flight between Morocco and Tunisia. Moris relayed each question to Premier Michel Debre, who in turn relayed it to De Gaulle. The answers: De Gaulle would certainly not see Ferhat Abbas until a cease-fire had been signed. No contact with Ben Bella would be permitted. As for Ferhat Abbas' freedom of movement, it would be the same...
Geologists divide the earth's history into a sequence of periods: Permian, Jurassic, etc. But seldom do they agree on the age of each period, and a particularly annoying question mark is the Pleistocene, an epoch of intermittent ice ages during which man became true man. The geological dating system that uses the decay of uranium and other radioactive elements to tell the age of very ancient rocks is much too vague for the comparatively short Pleistocene. Dating by carbon 14, which is fine for recent times, reaches back only 60,000 years-not nearly enough...