Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after serving briefly as John Kennedy's Food for Peace director, McGovern won election by a bare 597 votes (out of 254,319). He has since sought to ensure his popularity by fighting for stable farm prices and greater investment by industry to stem the drain of young people from rural areas. At the same time, he defended his wide-ranging involvement with broader concerns "We cannot build a wall around South Dakota and not take notice of what is going on in the cities," he explained. "A Senator who alienates urban opinion is of no value anymore...
...bare-chested guest in a beret was ejected for wearing a bandolier of live ammunition. Hirsute Abbie Hoffman stopped twirling his yo-yo long enough to raise his hand and ask gravely "May I go to the bathroom?" Nancy Kurshan, clad as a witch, alternately burned incense and smooched with a brown-bearded, bell-bearing friend. She identified her organization as the Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, and intoned...
Deep as those cuts were, they were superficial compared to gouges made in other programs. For foreign aid, the House irresponsibly appropriated only $1.6 billion, lowest sum in the program's 21-year history and $1.3 billion less than President Johnson's bare-bones request. Development loan funds were hacked from the $765 million asked for by the Administration to only $265 million. The Alliance for Progress got only $290 million of a requested $625 million, which touched off bitter complaints all over Latin America...
...many cases this process has not only made possible the remounting of frescoes but has also laid bare the long-hidden preliminary sketches, or sinopias, drawn on the underneath layers of plaster. The current exhibit includes 24, which have been mounted separately and are shown next to their frescoes...
CAMBRIDGE is Artsy. Everybody knows. And Art is everywhere in Cambridge. Every little show on Mass. Ave. sports its own head posters, Night Watches and Van Gogh bridges along with Jewish holiday cards, plastic roses and scented pillows. But few bare walls are ugly enough to be insulted by a dollar's worth of commercialized psychedelia incongruously mushed with Great Oil Painting of the Western World...