Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tony's apologia, Laughing Last, and some who look on him as Richard Nixon's first victim. Ironically, Weinstein's book also discredits Nixon's performance, demonstrating that as a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, he actually fell apart at critical points during the investigation (see box...
...fluency in both languages for many jobs, and had language courses instituted for them. Legislation was passed requiring that products be labeled in French as well as English. When an English-speaking man expressed horror at seeing "paillettes de maïis " (cornflakes) on one side of his breakfast-cereal box, the Prime Minister snapped: "Turn the damned box around...
Except the Crimson didn't make it. I had to file a story, though, so I headed over to Levien where this old guy--I think he was the janitor--let me in. I headed for the press box phone to do some in-depth reporting...
...Somalia's position is difficult for the West to endorse wholeheartedly: as the aggressor in the Ogaden, it has embarrassed the Organization of African Unity, whose charter forbids any breaching of established borders. Says one U.S. African expert: "Sending military aid now would open a Pandora's box...
...many, the war was good for the soul. In a U.S. economically galvanized by the conflict, it was good for the stomach as well. Unemployment vanished, and the unspent wages of war work compressed like a powerful spring. The economy suddenly began to look like a jack-in-the-box poised for peace. When it came, the future sprang up in vistas of well-lighted suburbs and grinning grillwork...