Word: begin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while I am at it. Before you begin the usual literary potshot routine on our Governor Reagan, look at recent financial statements on" the state. You will note that a very wise mind is bringing stability into state government. And from this economic base expanding stability in many other social areas will develop...
Months before, the Vice President had turned down an invitation to speak at the Midwestern Regional Republican Conference in Des Moines. Last week, just two days before the meeting was to begin, Agnew suddenly reinvited himself. The conference chairman hastily hired the Fort Des Moines Hotel ballroom and scheduled Agnew as the klieg-light speaker. Agnew's words were written by Buchanan, who is a hard-line conservative, and vetted in the upper echelons of Nixon's personal staff...
Around 3:30 p.m.. Westfeldt decides the first "rundown," the order and length (down to the second) of the stories. An hour or so later, a couple of writers begin to rap out Huntley's copy, mostly from the A.P. wire. Brinkley generally writes his own. Westfeldt has final film cut and say; he doesn't touch Brinkley's prose, but he sometimes overrules David on the priority of items. New, updated copy sometimes is slipped to the anchor men during commercial breaks...
Blaine offered two major explanations for the dropouts desire to take risks. The first was the affluence of American society: "Young people brought up in a world where everything has come easily to them begin to long for challenge and they cast about for risks to take . . . ." The other came right from Freud: hippies act like "infants and children [who] demand instant gratification . . . demanding from drugs an instant and constant happiness." They are immature people, for "if maturity comes, it brings with it the capacity to tolerate some present pain in order to achieve a greater pleasure at some later...
...Boston and Vicinity Crafts Maintenance Council (AFL-CIO) became the bargaining agent for Harvard's maintenance workers in 1967. Donn Berry, secretary-treasurer of the union, said yesterday that he approached Harvard several times about the issues from 1967 on, and that, six months ago, the University agreed to begin talks on the problem...