Word: blankets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrary, it is in sounder shape than ever before. Though there are some 25 million television sets in Japan-more than in any other country except the U.S.-newspaper circulation has been growing, and no major newspapers have folded in the past decade. Five Tokyo-based national newspapers blanket the country: Asahi (circ. 5.1 million), Yomiuri (4.6 million), Mainichi (4,000,000), Sankei (1.9 million) and Nihon Keizai (930,000). Putting out 42 daily editions, Asahi has 2,000 editorial staffers, 295 domestic bureaus and 24 correspondents overseas. Journalism is a profession with prestige in Japan, and papers are swamped...
...House, for making the 90th's first session un-great. "In vote after vote," he declared, "the House members of the other party lined up like wooden soldiers of the status quo." Rather than provide constructive alternatives, the Republicans sought to bury good bills "in a blanket of rhetoric beneath a wave of reaction...
...everything was ready for the opening; plastic still fills some paneless shop windows, and some cinder-block walls are as yet unpainted. But Snowmass was booked to its 1,000 capacity. And to frost the cake, a blanket of feathery snow drifted down over the slopes as the first guests arrived...
...parking on a Los Angeles freeway-hardly a format for getting off cracks about public figures. He did it anyway, by exhibiting gifts from his bag: a special award from the Optimists Club for Harold Stassen; a book of one-syllable words for William F. Buckley Jr.; an electric blanket for Frank Sinatra; a surfboard for General de Gaulle, to be used as a tongue depressor...
...your brief story on the results of the recent Vietnam Referendum, a blanket statement is made about "the Harvard students and Faculty members who organized the Referendum" being "particularly surprised by the dovish stance of students at Emmanuel College ..." This particular participant was not at all surprised, and is inclined to regard this surprise itself as based on inexperience, perhaps snobbery. Emmanuel College students have been at discussions of disarmament and peace in this area (as well as active on the race front), apparently with more pertinacity than local visibility. David Riesman '31 Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences