Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week's House Democratic caucus would doubtless approach the Powell problem with the utmost diffidence, even though the pressure was on to corral him. Sensing that this was the case, Powell issued a statement condemning efforts to dump him from his committee chairmanship as part of a "conspiracy of enormous dimensions." His critics, he said, "are trying to politically castrate one of America's most powerful Negro politicians." If they persist, Powell hinted, he would blow the whistle on other congressional sinners. And, though many if not most Negro leaders privately hold Powell in contempt, they were...
Says Lyricist Paul Simon, 24: "It's become out of style to lay yourself open, to approach people with your arms open. Everybody nowadays is closed up -the put-on, the putdown. It's tough to come on with your arms wide, knowing you may get kicked in the groin...
...Core of Love. The generation shows the same empirical approach to love as many do to drugs. Says Billie Joe Phillips, 23, a Georgia coed who writes a twice-weekly column for the Atlanta Constitution: "For most of the girls in my age group who are married, it would have been better if someone had given them a gross of prophylactics, locked them in a motel room for two weeks, and let them get it out of their systems." Boys and girls together reject the post-Renaissance notion that passion, like a chrysanthemum, blooms best when vigorously pinched off. Says...
...upon an abandoned ostrich nest. Two ostrich eggs left in the nest were under attack by a variety of vultures, which were trying vainly to peck through the tough shells. While the Van Lawicks watched and photographed, they reported last week in Nature, two Egyptian vultures took a novel approach to their problem...
Stop-&-Go. Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger's new coalition government, fretting more about the possibility of recession than about the pressure of inflation, last month called on Karl Blessing's constitutionally independent Bundesbank to implement a "decisive relaxation of credit restrictions." That approach failed to win Blessing's blessing. Fearful that an easing of monetary restraints alone would lead to increased inflation, Blessing insisted that West Germany's federal, state and municipal governments curb their often lavish spending. Otherwise, he said, the country will wind up with "the same stop-and-go policy that has worked...