Word: backed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...received campaign contributions from Arab supporters) and his anti-Israel position ignore all of these considerations. His politics could be popular among Republicans and push him through the primaries. But he should beware that they could backfire in a general election, when Jews--absent from the Republican primaries--will back the Democratic candidate. Connally has tossed away any possibility for Jewish support, a factor that was crucial to the Republicans' victory in the presidential race of 1972, when many Jews voted conservatively...
...seems to work. "Many kids get turned on to business and go back to high school," Kathleen Carey, teacher-in-charge and a founder of the program, says. "Others go on to get a job. Yes, some do go on to jail but all things considered this place runs pretty smoothly. We are pleased with our success...
Much of this issue was absurd and distasteful, especially from a woman's point of view. Faludi and Devall's articles, about playwright Arthur Miller and feminist Garry Trudeau respectively, relegated to the back of the Arts Supplement, did something to antidote the miasmal matter of the first half. Their writing and those about whom they chose to write reassured me that indeed, unlike most of this week's Crimson Arts Supplement, some art does serve the end of social liberation. Sincerely, Mary Holland...
...would be hard put to retell the plot. Ted Baxter's cheapness on The MTM Show is as funny to this generation as Jack Benny's was 30 years ago, and Lou Grant's scowls are as familiar now as Groucho's raised eyebrows were back then. "Character is what fascinates me," says Brooks. "I love populated things. The great thing about literature is that it tells you that you are not alone...
...topped coffin of Pharaoh Ramses II last week at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Three years ago the mummified pharaoh, who built Abu Simbel in the course of his 67-year rule, developed-well, a fungus and parasites. He was shipped to Paris to be cured of the condition. Back in Cairo, Ramses II went on display again, along with a plaque noting that in 1258 B.C. he and Hattusilis, great chief of the Hittites, ended a 20-year war with an agreement that neither would pass into the land of the other "or take anything therefrom." "Good, good," nodded...