Word: asset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russell Billiu Long was the Teddy Kennedy of his day. A 30-year-old lawyer, he had held no posts weightier than president of the L.S.U. student government, and executive counsel to Louisiana's Governor-who happened to be his Uncle Earl. Russell's biggest political asset was a remarkable physical resemblance to his father, Huey. the Kingfish himself. He was dubbed the Princefish. That was all right with Russell; at 13, he had said of his father: "When I grow up. I want to be exactly like him." But somewhere along the way. Russell Long changed...
...American novelists whose first work has appeared within the last few years. A few are widely read, but none is read widely enough. A few are almost unread, which is their unreaders' loss. This is not exclusively a list of young novelists; youth in novelists is not an asset but a liability which is occasionally overcome. Also, the list omits such excellent writers as J. D. Salinger, Truman Capote, William Styron and Saul Bellow, merely because their first books appeared longer ago than the last few years. The writers...
...most kinds of mineral deposits, from antimony to zircon. What is wrong with the arrangement, as tax reformers see it, is that the owner can keep on taking the deduction indefinitely, even after he has fully recovered his capital outlays, while in most other types of business, an asset can be depreciated (written off against taxable income) only to the extent of its cost...
Harvard now has two scoring lines that Welland rates with any in the East, but so far the biggest asset of the team has been the defense, which has permitted but 21 goals. Without Johnston, who will listen to the games in Stillman while recuperating from mononucleosis, the quality of the defense my deteriorate...
President Kennedy announces in his State of the Union message that he is very pleased with himself. Describing McGeorge Bundy as the "Nation's number one asset," he expresses dismay that anyone could think Bundy ambitious. George Romney receives Kennedy's speech coolly: he reveals that an Archangel appeared to him in a vision and urged that he "keep an eye on national politics...