Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know, at least, that the President did not resort to a ghost writer to express his sentiments on the solemn occasion. He spoke with beautiful simplicity right from his heart, which the astronauts apparently understood perfectly and enjoyed thoroughly. Would they have felt more at ease had the President delivered a dry, solemn, meaningless, lengthy speech that the enlightened intellectuals would have enjoyed interpreting and criticizing...
Employer of Last Resort. Most of the first round of criticism was aimed at welfare reform, and both liberals and conservatives joined in the firing. Overall, they praised Nixon's desire to combine an income supplement to the working poor with a national minimum welfare benefit, but they severely scored the way the Administration proposed to make the new system work...
...evenly over the entire year. Until this year, most working parents took vacations in the summer, when their children were out of school, resulting in summertime business slowdowns and production losses. Another advantage of the summer quarter lies in providing useful activity for poor children who have no other resort in summer than the streets. Superintendent of Schools John W. Letson points out that the old school-year structure was developed in a rural past. In an urban society, he says, "it does not seem like good planning to turn all the children loose at the same time...
...ever it should be possible for me to meet any Soviet officials or to offer them my hand, it will not be before the U.S.S.R. grants complete freedom to Czechoslovakia and withdraws its troops from there forever. I wish to apologize for the deception to which I had to resort in order to obtain permission to leave Russia. It was a deception forced on me. You have yourselves created the conditions in which it is impossible even to go abroad without trickery...
Crowhurst's damaged boat was found in the mid-Atlantic 81 months after he set out from the resort town of Teign-mouth on the southern coast of Eng land. His position, 700 miles southwest of the Azores, indicated that he was front runner for the fastest time. Though Crowhurst, 36, was missing, his logbooks, which gradually lapsed into incoherence, provide a revealing case study of the effects of extended solitude...