Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only head of state among the guests, De Gaulle rated the most elaborate welcome at the airport, including a 21-gun salute, a bigger limousine, a larger motorcycle escort. Television cameras zeroed in on him, and Roman crowds shouted, "Viva De Gaulle!" As the guests and their Italian hosts walked from a ceremony in the Palazzo dei Conservatori through Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio, the other European leaders and Eurocrats trailed behind le grand Charles like captive barbarians in one of Caesar's triumphal parades...
...nourish him all through his youth, the average U.S. college freshman of the '60s is half an inch taller than his father, and still growing. It is no surprise, says Vince Lombardi, coach of the pro champion Green Bay Packers, that "today's football player is bigger, faster and sharper mentally." Today's baseball player is bigger too. In almost every sport, the good big man is displacing the good little man. For those who are not big enough, or energetic enough, modern science lends a hand. Green Bay's Lombardi claims that...
Though part of the harassment is an effort to distract U.S. attention from South Viet Nam, the bigger reason for North Korea's provocations is to divert its own people's thoughts from their deepening economic troubles. "The Communist actions," says General Charles Bonesteel III, the United Nations and U.S. Eighth Army commander in Korea, "are nasty and vicious, but they amount largely to frustrated impotency...
...growing concern by parents, especially in urban areas, about the declining quality of public school education. Says Dr. Paul Miller, Cincinnati school superintendent: "People say that Johnny can't read anymore, or Mary can't spell, or kids aren't being taught arithmetic." Voting against bigger school budgets also represents one of the few direct ways that citizens can express their anger at a seemingly endless spiral of rising taxes. Basically, says Calvin Rossi, legislative representative of the California Teachers' Association, the voters "are not saying no to the schools. They are saying no to higher...
...most reputable insurers have some deep-rooted problems. The nation's growing number of autos means more and more accidents. Moreover, chain-reaction smashups involving dozens of cars have become increasingly common. And because of the rising cost of repairs and medical care, individual claims also are getting bigger. Claims are further inflated because many accident victims-backed up by sympathetic juries-seem to be convinced that insurance companies have money to burn. Some of the claimants connive with their doctors, lawyers and garagemen to pad their bills. John Mahoney, New England claims manager for Employees Group Insurance...