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Word: agent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hospital. Contract negotiations had been delayed because of doubts on the part of Sullivan and members of the hospital administration as to whether the MNA actually represents the nurses. The MNA authority as legal representative stems from a 1966 election in which the nurses designated them as their bargaining agent...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: City Council Endorses Resolution Condemning Sentinel Missile Plan | 2/25/1969 | See Source »

There will be a special security problem in Berlin. The city's Free University is the center of youthful opposition to the Bonn regime and to continued U.S. influence in Germany. Last week left-wing students there denounced Nixon as "the shifty agent of the most reactionary kind of American bourgeois society" and resolved to demonstrate against him. Most of West Berlin's 20,000-man police force-including 5,000 reservists-will be turned out during Nixon's three-hour stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: JOURNEY TO A DIFFERENT EUROPE | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...week's end another of Garrison's witnesses backfired. Special FBI Agent Lyndal Shaneyfelt testified that he had minutely examined the Zapruder film, as well as enlarged prints of the fatal shot that shattered Kennedy's head. Asked Defense Attorney Dymond: "Based on your examination, have you found any photographic evidence to indicate that the shots that hit President Kennedy came from any direction other than his right rear?" Replied Shaneyfelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Dallas Revisited | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...John Cage and Pierre Boulez is to inter the paralyzing reputations of the masters, especially the twentieth-century masters who have become classics and therefore dead issues. The finest contemporary composers are struggling to form and sustain unservile metaphors of continuity and revolution. The avant-garde is an agent of wise exasperation seeking to burn through the cloud of jingle and treacle which daily cheapens all of our lives...

Author: By Chris Rochester, | Title: The Avant-garde | 2/20/1969 | See Source »

...here Kraft makes the same assumption that all liberal journalists make, an assumption that is the basis of the guilt problem. The journalist is not the "agent of the sovereign public" at all. He is the agent of his won newspaper, which cannot pretend to represent everyone in the nation. And as a columnist, he is an agent of himself. These are his views on paper, his very own. He does not need any more of a justification for his writing than that. His feeling of responsibility to the entire country makes him less of a writer. It makes...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: The Washington Monthly | 2/19/1969 | See Source »

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