Word: almosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time who have successfully transposed social movements into the electoral system. Cesar Chavez and Carolyn Reed [director of the National Committee on Household Employment] have redefined work and taken forward the movement to organize the lowest, least paid in the working force. And John Kenneth Galbraith is almost the only link between economic knowledge and the public...
...become an almost universal complaint that the tribe of leaders has died out. That is true in one sense...
...Richard A. Viguerie, 45, a prime mover of neoconservatism, has rediscovered an old means of communication to further his causes: direct mail. Viguerie circumvents the media with his two IBM computers and a treasure of mailing lists, including a 5,000-name "hit list" that can produce, almost overnight, $115,000 in contributions for conservative causes. He can flood a Senator, Representative or state Governor with 50,000 letters in a single delivery. Viguerie helped lead the heated battle against the Panama Canal Treaties, anathema to many middle-of-the-roaders?and lost narrowly. Now he is cranking...
...nothing to prevent the Secretary-General from asking countries hostile to Israel to contribute troops," complained a senior aide to the Premier. Others grimly recalled 1967, when Secretary-General U Thant at Egypt's request withdrew U.N. forces from the Sinai, only to see hostilities break out almost immediately thereafter. At week's end, much of the sting was removed from the dispute when the State Department suggested the possibility of new four-cornered negotiations between Israel, Egypt...
...anybody should know, it is George Burns, who started performing in 1903, not long after Teddy Roosevelt became President. "Nobody," he insists, "is older than I am." Groucho, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Fanny Brice, Amos and Andy, and Gracie Allen, George's partner and wife for four decades: almost all the great comedians of the '30s and '40s are gone. But Burns, who is 83, is still around to enjoy the applause. His first dramatic role, in The Sunshine Boys, won him an Academy Award, and that brought him the part of the Title Character...