Word: bend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Majestic Polluted Hudson," a report on the abuses of the river guaranteed to send New Yorkers round the bend. Repeat...
...their efforts to convince the Administration to keep the country out of war, the pacifists used many of the techniques that are being used by anti-war groups. A petition sent to President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 in May of 1940, remind him "to bend his efforts toward securing peace and not war for America." More than 300 students signed the petition and sent with it a naval artillery shell, World War I vintage, for the President to use as a paper weight. The signers vowed "never, under any circumstances, to follow in the footsteps of the students...
...Administration seems to realize that all the bold plans now cascading from Congress-last year alone it expanded nine existing grant-in-aid programs and launched 17 new ones-may not accomplish much unless the Government is willing to bend to this diversity. "Many of our critical new programs involve the Federal Government in joint ventures with states and local governments," said the President in his Budget Message. "We must give more freedom of action and judgment to the people on the firing line." Johnson is planning a full-dress speech on creative federalism before long. Last week...
...Organization had begun to bend--and crack. Thousands of conservatives who had clung to Harry Byrd's Democratic party found no home in the party of Godwin and Kellam. Last July, thy created the Virginia Conservative Party and attracted more than 70,000 votes for their candidate, William Story, an assistant school superintendent (since retired) and John Birch Society member. Last week they announced their own ticket for the Senate and urged their supporters to stay out of the Democratic primary...
...Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941), Bend Sinister (1947), Puin (1957), Lolita (1958) and Pale Fire...