Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...endless arms race and repeated confrontations. Thus each concedes to the other, however bitterly, a degree of latitude within its own sphere. The system is not ideal, and it is certainly not moral, but it has one unassailable virtue: so far, it has worked. Also, it can buy time for men like Alexander Dubcek, and others inside and outside the Communist domain, to continue striving, in some form, for freedom...
While his political friends know him as Ted Agnew, Judy always calls her husband Spiro. Her clothes are "unfussy" and come off the rack. Occasionally Spiro goes to dress shops to buy them for her. The Governor wears custom-made suits and shirts...
Ojukwu's early schooling took place among the Yorubas of Lagos, Nigeria's bustling seaport capital. At twelve, he was shipped off to the best British education that an Ibo millionaire could buy, first at Epsom public school in Surrey and then at Oxford's Lincoln College. "When I first went to England as a boy," he recalls, "I was swamped by that sea of white faces. I didn't even recognize people who had been my teachers, once they were immersed among their own kind." On the debating team at Epsom, he developed a keen gift for words...
...family TV and radio stations in Texas were making him a millionaire. On the other hand, Pearson has been helpful to L.BJ. too-on the assumption that the two men can be useful to each other. In 1964. a life insurance salesman charged that he had been forced to buy advertising on a Johnson TV staton after selling the President a policy. To discredit the salesman, the White House leaked his spotty military record to Pearson, who duly printed...
...UNIVERSITIES: "As long as the universities have no conception of themselves other than the supermarket conception, they will have to resign themselves to the fact that people will walk in off the street, buy a box of Wheaties, and walk...