Word: chafed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...picture camera in the 1940s. Lately his main job has been to work out the problems that still bedevil production of the SX-70, Polaroid's revolutionary instant-color camera, and have cut deeply into the company's earnings. Unlike Wyman, McCune is not the sort to chafe at Land's tight grip. He has said in the past that he accepts Land's managerial motto: "You can do anything you want to-as long as you do what I want...
Clockwork Orangers. Younger Iranians chafe at such restrictions, but the government is in no hurry to change the situation. Premier Hoveida, in an interview with TIME Correspondent William Stewart, dismissed protesters as "a bunch of Clockwork Grangers." Said he: "The survival of the state cannot come about with a permissive society." The Shah himself is even blunter: "We want to catch up and do it quickly. In these very specific conditions, the blah-blahs of armchair critics are obviously ignored. If this is intolerance, I accept...
Having grown up in an age in which my own heroes were brutally assassinated, I was fascinated by one who did triumph and endure: Charles Lindbergh. This worshipful interest has recently been deepened by Anne Morrow Lindbergh's published diaries and letters. I chafe at your casual supposition that my generation cannot "fully appreciate" Lindbergh. Perhaps, having no heroes of our own time, we value more dearly those of another...
...S.L.A. manifesto. Both ran a second letter and the transcript of a tape recording of Patty Hearst's voice: the Examiner added a photocopy of the letter for good measure. Later tapes of Patricia received similar play. While stressing the story's newsworthiness, many San Francisco newsmen chafe at giving a handful of terrorists unlimited space. But, as Examiner Editor Tom Eastham observes, "There appears to be no alternative...
Despite all this, Chileans, if they had the choice, would probably reluctantly vote for the junta as the lesser of evils. Though the junta is hardly popular, it does have the country running again. Chileans chafe under its totalitarian restrictions, but they also remember the chaos and strife of Allende's regime. For the moment Chile's citizens appear content to get back to work and the rhythms of an orderly society. But with their long democratic tradition, they are not likely to tolerate junta rule indefinitely...