Word: breed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Johnson knew how to get along with his court. Tom Clark and William Douglas were longtime New Deal buddies, and he kept the friendships going over lunch and on the phone. Hugo Black was out of the Senate tradition, and Earl Warren was a former Governor, the ultimate breed of political survivor. When L.B.J. wanted to clear the air about the Kennedy assassination, he never worried more than a second or two about the sanctity of the court. He went after Warren with his full guile and authority, rejecting Warren's first shocked refusals to head a special commission...
...mullahs confront an emboldened breed of Islamic leftists...
...public school I was exposed to drugs, alcohol, violence and teen-age sex. I also acquired an understanding of the social tensions that breed these conditions. By removing students from the realm of the dopeheads and potheads referred to by Warren Rushton of the Rushtons' Basement School, children in Christian schools grow up ignorant of our social ills. Consequently, they fear society's problems rather than understand them and, thus, are unable to help solve them...
Southwest Airlines, one of the oldest of the new breed of carrier, was founded in 1971 as a strictly intrastate Texas operator. Now the line serves New Orleans, Tulsa and Albuquerque as well. Air Florida started out as an intrastate carrier, and has gone international. From its base in Miami, the line now serves Washington, New York, London, Amsterdam and Brussels...
...ever with Jaws before moving on to the constantly mutating Close Encounters, All of those movies managed to hold that line--exuding innocence without necessarily being shallow (though Star Wars, arguably, was not so successful at this). Spielberg and Lucas, along with Coppola, are the epitome of the new breed of film-school film-makers--they are technical whizzes, well-practiced, aloof from the slow strangulation that was the studio system...