Word: remains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After reading the remarks of Martha Mitchell I was reminded of an old adage: Tis better to remain silent and be judged stupid rather than speak and remove all doubt...
...almost as commonplace as the village church, and "hanging days" were occasions for revelry. In London at the "Tyburn tree" (the present location of Marble Arch), crowds of 100,000 or more assembled to watch the festivities. Distinguished visitors to the ceremonies at Newgate prison were often invited to remain for breakfast. "And if there were no more than six or seven hanged," according to one chronicler, the guests "would return grumbling and disappointed ... After breakfast was over, the whole party adjourned to see the 'cutting down.' " In 1800, a boy of ten was sentenced to death...
...Egyptians. The delegation came home bearing a message from Premier Aleksei Kosygin saying that Moscow still hopes for a political settlement of the Middle East crisis. Until the Soviets change their minds, which seems highly improbable, Arab cries for another round of fighting against Israel are likely to remain only a hollow threat...
Whatever new or old doors theology enters, for many men the reality of God in the future may well remain as elusive as it has been in the past. For all of the hoping, God will still seem painfully far ahead; for all of the evidence at hand, the rumors of angels will often be too faint to hear. What then? In secular society, as in earlier eras, the question mark will remain. But so will the glimmers of answers...
...ties with the U.N. and hire their own man, an Asian from one of the Mekong countries. They finally approved William Van Der Oord, a U.N. official from The Netherlands-but only on an acting basis. The Mekong Committee insists that any permanent replacement for Schaaf must agree to remain with the project indefinitely. The U.N. is unlikely to agree to this ultimatum, and the bickering has probably made fund raising more difficult. The tragedy is that the Mekong project has reached the takeoff point, and official indifference in Washington and executive infighting at the U.N. could severely...