Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Norman Vincent Peale's bomb was Nixon's worst piece of inherited bad luck in the campaign so far, the agreement to debate with Kennedy on TV was his own worst tactical mistake. Though Nixon drew even with Kennedy in the later rounds, the four encounters together helped Kennedy enormously-not so much by weakening Nixon's public image as by strengthening Kennedy's. Before the debates, after 7½ years as Vice President, Nixon was far better known, and though he had many detractors, seemed a man of much greater maturity and experience-though their...
...their folded legs. The delta's inhabitants have learned to live with such hazards as high spring tides and violent cyclones that sweep in over the Bay of Bengal at the turn of the monsoon in the fall. But this month uncounted thousands of them died in the worst storm since October 1876, when 100,000 drowned in 30 minutes...
...dealing with delinquents, of course, the difficulty of gaining their confidence is the fundamental stumbling block. Indeed, Slack is virtually the first to meet this problem successfully with a standard and easily communicable method. Court psychiatrists, for example, have been tragically unable to gain the cooperation of the worst delinquents. Slack believes conventional psycho-therapy fails because it insists on maintaining a doctor-patient relationship. Delinquents, he holds, refuse to acknowledge in any way that they might need "treatment," that there is any insufficiency in themselves. In fact, one special reformatory in New York which attempts psycho-therapy actually...
...federal legislature, blacks would get equal representation with whites. Also proposed was an ironclad prohibition of racial discrimination in the future. Worst of all, in the eyes of the federation's shocked whites, was the suggestion that any one of the three territories should be permitted to secede completely after a five or seven-year trial period of the new system...
...specialized teachers, he advocates a minimum of 50 teachers per 1,000 students, plus one full-time guidance counselor for every 250 to 300 students. He also believes that for this difficult period, children should find their best teachers, whereas, in fact, they usually get the least experienced, the worst paid and the fewest...