Word: availability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, the government has become increasingly dependent on the intellectual resources of the American university to fuel that machine. The billions of dollars which federal authorities dole out each year to the nation's most eminent scholars to perform war-related research-not to mention the talent they avail themselves of in return-constitute an irreplaceable item on the government's yearly budget...
...more or different clothes. The colored battle-screen made no contribution. More seriously, the court at Egypt was enervated and decidedly unexotic, unmajestic, uninercurial, and rather bland, tired, and timid. There was petulance instead of the passionate anger of a moody, selfish, regal, lover-queen. Miss Yakutis must avail herself, as I know she can, of a range of tones and rhythms, and soar and admonish and implore and pout and sing her way to complexity. The soldiers are unremittingly declamatory, laboring to render each line as massively as possible. They don't speak to each other, but keep trying...
More than a few West Germans agreed. Acting on Bonn's request for help, Washington had the CIA contact the guerrillas, to no avail. Still, there was a feeling that more pressure should have been used by the one country in a position to use it. "Only two forces could have saved Spreti," said a West German official. "The Guatemala government didn't want to and the American government was not inclined...
Meanwhile to no avail. Williamson asked Bowie and Johnson to get out of the cab. Minutes later. Cox invoked the name of President Pusey and Bowie and Johnson agreed to leave. Cox said last night, "Do I have the authority to speak for the President in such circumstances? The answer...
Joey chooses to side with Murph and pins down the Indian as Murph calls his son. The Indian is put on the phone, but to no avail, since Murph has cut the cord and stabbed his hand. The Indian is left reciting "Thank you," the only English words he knows, a receiver in one hand, a wound in the other. This time the play is much more to the point, a grotesque reminder that it is no more grotesque than what it documents. Why guerrilla theatre if it already happens on the streets...