Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This lifts a great burden off my shoulders," sighed Long, 59, after Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, chairman of the committee, delivered the unanimous report on the Senate floor. "I am grateful to this committee." Replied Stennis: "We didn't give you anything-only the facts...
...known and popular as an able investigator and prosecutor. On the hustings he demonstrated the intelligence, presence and reformist approach that had elected him district attorney in 1965-the first Republican to win a major city wide office in 14 years. Democratic Mayor James Tate, 57, bore the triple burden of a mediocre record, a ponderous personality and a divided party. But instead of pleading nolo contendere, Tate has doggedly chipped away at Specter's seemingly unassailable early lead...
...beat of his time is Jonas Gould, an athletic and good-looking young Bronxite, working as a printer's apprentice. Reaching for adulthood but not yet firmly grasping it. Jonas at 21 must confront the relevance of a world bound for war with his own personal fate. The burden of this novel is Jonas' growing realization that though he may not know quite what he wants for himself, he must be wary of all who seem to know exactly what they want from...
...study of the language requirement by the Office of Tests does not, by itself, provide a compelling argument for eliminating the dreary burden. It does, however, indicate that perhaps there should be a more thoroughgoing modification than the deans have so far been willing to consider seriously...
...where hippies live. San Francisco's Hashbury had a pair of unrelated murders in a single week last summer (TIME, Aug. 18), and the phenomenon of murder or suicide committed under the influence of LSD is becoming commonplace. But the deaths of Groovy and Linda carried an added burden of horror. They sent a chill through all of hippiedom. In the East Village, the hippies were convinced that it was time to move. The scene would never be the same. "The chick wasn't anything to us," said one wet-eyed hippie girl. "But Groovy, oh, Groovy...