Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...timing and severity of a recession will depend mainly upon how quickly Maisel and Mitchell can persuade their fellow board members to ease up on money. President Nixon can cajole the members, but legally he cannot control the actions of the board, which is independent of the executive branch. As a practical matter, though, the board would find it difficult to resist presidential arm-twisting...
Radical rhetoric shows up throughout the Journal, giving the impression to an uncareful reader that female liberation is just the female branch of the movement to overthrow capitalism and establish socialism. But these three women don't want just to change the political structure. They want to transform human (more than man's) nature, since they see men, regardless of class, as historical enemies to the "female principle." In "American Radicalism: A Diseased Product of a Diseased Society," Betsy Warrior severely criticizes the members of the movement for having, under an idealistic disguise, the same competitive mentality as other Americans...
Yesterday afternoon's meeting at the MCAD headquarters on Tremont Street in Boston have no official significance. The Community Relations division of the MCAD a part of the executive branch of the state government served only as mediator between the three OBU delegates and the University representatives...
...carry to the vans. Twenty-seven people were arrested. The last person to come down was a gutsy girl in the top of a cypress. The police could never have reached her without the hook-and-ladder truck- she had somehow wiggled out to the tip of a big branch with nothing around her for handholds. When the police did get to her, they almost knocked her off the branch- she dangled for several minutes by her hands 100 feet or more above the creek bed. With her descent, and with the lines of cops to hold back everybody else...
...paintbrush, Buñuel too often employs a palette knife. What is intended as subtle Human Comedy becomes broadly laughable, as when Jesus and his disciples run through the woods in chromo-colored sequences, or when Mary miraculously appears after a hunter has shot a rosary from a tree branch, or when an unintentionally effeminate devil (Pierre Clementi) pops up in the back of a wrecked automobile...