Word: advent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wahoo Sam, perhaps the game's greatest slugger before the advent of Tyrus Raymond Cobb, put it best when he said a few years ago, "And still they don't give him a tumble for the Hail of Fame. It's not right...
...story of how a relatively undeveloped region can take advantage of its resources for the economic benefit of the people who live in it. And in fact even with Alaska's soaring inflation rate real income for most of the state's residents rose markedly with the advent of the pipeline. The discovery of oil off the northern shore of Alaska carried with it an enormous potential for broad-based economic benefit: profits for the oil companies, jobs for the unemployed, and oil for the nation...
...hottest show in Washington is, of course, the advent of the new Administration. Without question, the second hottest show is the spectacular new National Air and Space Museum. Attendance for the first six months has reached more than 5 million, nearly double the projections. TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin has touched down in the museum almost a dozen times. His report...
...between depressions, neuroses and unemployment--and some of the stories in Distortions undermine the characters' reality in their tendency towards absurdism. Still, Beattie includes enough gentle humor in her presentation to keep you interested. You come to hope desperately for resolution, for an end to the emptiness and an advent of warmth. Beattie isn't liable to satisfy you (her favorite symbol for the human condition is snow, covering anybody's attempt to find happiness) but she'll keep you involved...
...politician than you are," was correct, it is clear that the Socialist party's problems were not solely the product of failures on the part of its leadership. The ideological divisions and rivalries among the parties of the American Left, government repression, the superficially socialistic New Deal, and the advent of World War II constituted political obstacles that may well have been insurmountable. In any case, a sophisticated analysis of the Socialist Party's decline is a task more suited to an academic than to a biographer, and Swanberg is more interested in providing a complete, detailed study...