Word: thoughtfullness
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Thoughtful U.S. Southerners-including many Senators who were going through the Shintoesque ceremonial of the filibuster-knew full well that their case against the right to vote was doomed. Said the Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel last week: "It must be generally realized that this repression of Negro citizens won'...
The President, who is pleased with the state of the union these days but also a little on the defensive because the political cannonading is coming closer to home, gave the question a long, thoughtful, if somewhat rambling answer.
Mr. Reston is usually where the best story is. A crack reporter, a good writer, a thoughtful columnist, and an able administrative chief of the biggest newspaper bureau (23 staffers) in Washington, he brings to his job a sober, Calvinistic sense of responsibility. He has never had a private audience...
Swashbuckling into Guatemala more than 400 years ago with soldiers, priests and instructions to Christianize the heathen, Conquistador Pedro de Alvarado took thoughtful note of the fact that much of the rites of the Mayas' animistic religion resembled Roman Catholicism. The Mayas burned candles and incense, venerated relics, held...
Political Career. After the war, Kennedy naturally turned to politics, successfully ran for Congress in 1946. Six years later he cast his net for the Republican Senate seat of Brahmin Henry Cabot Lodge and won, in a stunning reversal of the Eisenhower tide that swept through Massachusetts and the nation...