Word: recoverable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In recent weeks in South Viet Nam, Communist troops have been regularly beaten back, hurled from prepared positions, put to flight and slaughtered in huge numbers. Their setbacks have been so costly, U.S. experts reckoned, that they would need time to recover from their huge losses of both weaponry and...
The loss caused by such relatively hard-to-trace misuse amounts to an estimated $50 million a year, and the average is growing rapidly. Last week police in Manhattan were busy wrapping up a gang that had defrauded Diners Club of at least $350,000. The gang, which had Mafia...
Jarrell's sudden death hasn't been as anonymous, and the Committee of memorialists has contrived to write something far more elaborate than the "anything will do" he asked for as an epitaph. Buried in this courteous and often adoring book are kernels of the familiar sad story of the...
> On the survival ability of modern nations: "If the President had picked me to predict which country [in postwar Europe] would recover first, I would say, 'Bring me the records of maintenance.' The nation with the best maintenance will recover first. Maintenance is something very, very specifically Western...
After the race, Coach McCurdy mused--for what must be the hundredth time season--about the resiliency of this Harvard team. Despite injury after injury--two of the superstars, sophomores Keith Colburn and Roy Shaw didn't run--they have bounced back time and again. "They have the capacity to...