Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City police to express appreciation for protection provided by the cops since the delegation's arrival in November. At home, China's leaders lifted a ban against the sale of some classic books by Western thinkers, creating crowds in Peking bookstores; the writers included Rousseau, Kant-and Adam Smith...
...view of Poles in general-have found that it is possible to live with Gierek's moderate regime. Stage Director Kazimierz Dej-mek has returned from exile and is again in favor; he was disgraced in 1968 for putting on a heavily anti-Russian production of Patriot-Poet Adam Mickiewicz's 19th century play Dziady, which included the line "The only things Moscow sends us are jackasses, idiots and spies." Writer Stefan Kisie-lewski, who was severely beaten in 1968 for calling the government "a dictatorship of dimwits," has been allowed under Gierek to travel abroad...
...than Big Bill Thompson had to woo Chicago's ever-increasing black vote. Reading the handwriting on the wall, William Dawson, who after DePriest's defeat was the leading black Republican in the city, switched parties in 1938. Dawson's election to Congress in '43 coupled with that of Adam Clayton Powell two years later finalized the switch of black political loyalty from the Republicans to the Democrats. ..The concluding half--Void in Spades II--will appear in tomorrow's Crimson...
...contest to single out the single most useless item of apparel, the necktie wins in a walk. At best, it adds a modest splash of color to the Adam's apple; at worst, it makes a wearer appear to have been the recent victim of a mad tracheotomist. But with the coming of high-heeled shoes and shoulder purses for men, it seemed impossible that the ladies would not strike back. Now they have: in the gilded salons of Manhattan, London and Paris, the flouncy belles of yesteryear are turning out in man-tailored jackets, fly-front trousers...
...facts about where the troops were, where the civilian population was, and a great number of other important questions. We called somebody, I believe it was John McNaughton (Assistant Secretary of Defense for international security affairs) and asked him for a briefing and he said he would send up (Adam) Yarmolinsky (Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense) to give us the data we wanted. And Yarmolinsky came up with a lot of facts and data...