Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...here in South Dakota there are bigger issues at stake. The senatorial race is revolving around the state's entire conception of the role of the office of U.S. Senator...
...bits are like that. The white kid says a suspect must be rich because he has an eight thousand dollar car, and the black kid (picked up in the Watts riot, you remember), replies, "May-be he's not rich. I know a cat on welfare who has a bigger car." The remark might come from a militant consciousness akin to Malcolm X's when he called welfare emasculating, but considering that the black boy is working for the police, it probably is just as absurd, vicious, and ugly as it seems...
...Alexander Ginzburg called them, that The First Circle is most harrowing. Solzhenitsyn writes of one of these camp complexes as "a kingdom bigger than France." Each camp bore a bucolic code name such as Lake Camp, Steppe Camp, Sandy Camp. "You'd think there must be some great, unknown poet in the secret police, a new Pushkin," writes Solzhenitsyn. "He's not quite up to a full-length poem, but he gives these wonderful poetic names to concentration camps." These passages obviously parallel Solzhenitsyn's own experiences; after his years in Mavrino, he was sent to such a camp...
...leaders thought they perceived a trend to the right, and smugly expected Sweden to move in the same direction. The trend proved more apparent than real, since nowhere has any part of Scandinavia's all-embracing welfare system been repealed. Sweden's opposition parties, in fact, promised bigger and better welfare payments, compulsory unemployment insurance and lower rents on new housing...
Everyone is trying to wring a bigger return from the tube. NBC sold nearly a dozen one-minute World Series spots to Nixon and Humphrey (at $40,000 per), only to run into the objections of Baseball Commissioner William Eckert, who complained that the fans should not be distracted by national issues during the national game. At week's end, Eckert decided to play ball. After all, officials of the Olympics, that bastion of amateurism, did not quibble when Nixon's camp bought some $500,000 worth of TV time to be aired during the Mexico City games...