Word: traced
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Pursuit of Excellence. David Dean Rusk (he decided early in life to drop the David) has come a long way from his edge-of-poverty beginnings in Georgia, but the qualities that he will bring to his new job trace back to his pinched but nourishing origins...
...colony, Hong Kong has personal freedom and uninhibited free enterprise but no trace of political democracy. The colony is run by the British governor, and only 20,000 specially selected citizens have any vote at all. Though U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt considered Hong Kong an embarrassing hangover from colonialism and twice urged Britain to return Hong Kong to Chiang Kai-shek's China, there is no irredentist sentiment among Hong Kong's Chinese, or even any agitation for independence. As they well know, an independent Hong Kong would be swallowed up by Red China in a matter...
...campaign to the January inaugural. When the Nixons finally appeared, both networks closed in on a TV sight not soon to be forgotten-Pat Nixon, her face a portrait of distress almost under control, struggling hopelessly to do the smiling job her husband was accomplishing with ease, showing a trace of terror when the unsolemn crowd interrupted Nixon to shout: "We want...
Second, it is safe to assume that one could trace the development of the Peace Corps and discover hundreds of originators. To save controversy, I like to refer to a 1910 essay by William James entitled The Moral Equivalent of War. This was followed in 1926 by a delightful story by Richard J. Walsh called When the Earth Trembled. For that matter, one can find traces of the idea in the tenth chapter of Luke...
...main attraction, chiefly because of the Republican candidate, maverick and conservative Wesley Powell. A perennial candidate in the primaries, Powell finally edged out the incumbent two years ago by a few hundred votes and repeated the performance again this year in a pair of battles that have left no trace of harmony in the party. With the backing of the vituperative, reactionary Loeb newspapers, he is trying to usurp complete control of the party and the Executive Department. He is feuding bitterly with Attorney General Louis Wyman and the 450-member Republican legislature and has even alienated the national party...