Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...habitats for elephants. But young Thomas Downey, with energy and charm, claimed the place in 1974 for the Democrats. At the ripe old age of 29, he has a good chance of hanging on. In the next days he will tramp his district from dawn to sunset. He will attend the Mother Cabrini Festival and countless block parties. Downey will loiter at the commuter train stations, roll through areas in his mobile van. Every voter will be invited to a Sunday-morning tea at his parents' home in West Islip. Downey is sustained because the people consider...
...canopy (a stately funeral tent was provided by Class Member Jack Kennedy, who had stuck around Kittanning and fulfilled a lifelong dream of becoming an undertaker). There was no sign that the rain damaged the spirits of the celebrators, not even those who had forsaken sunny climes to attend...
...concern over the possibility of some sensational new outrage by the Baader-Meinhof gang of political terrorists. Yet the tense atmosphere seemed to symbolize the fact that Carter is embroiled not only with the Soviets but also with some allies, namely the West Germans. Now he had come to attend a seven-nation economic summit conference and, coincidentally, to see if the Bonn-Washington coolness could be remedied...
...Brezhnev, warning that the Shcharansky and Ginzburg trials could injure U.S.Soviet relations. Carter has already ordered a review of all U.S.-Soviet cooperative agreements to find ways to dramatize U.S. concern about the case, and Vance formally announced that Presidential Science Adviser Frank Press would not, as previously planned, attend the sixth annual meeting of the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Joint Commission on Scientific and Technical Cooperation in Moscow. A three-member environmental delegation also canceled an imminent trip to Russia. Vance said he "deplored" the coming Soviet trials as a violation of "fundamental principles of justice...
...organization is, ironically, to give Westerners an authentic taste of the boredom inherent in the Chinese performing-arts tradition. It is an opportunity to develop, in a matter of minutes and as a matter of survival, an ability to tune out large parts of the evening in order to attend with a degree of alertness the moments of great entertainment, like the Peking Opera, when excellence of form triumphs over embarrassing lack of substance...