Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Having come to terms two years ago with Viet Nam, most Americans wanted to put it behind them again. Gerald Ford said earnestly: "This action closes a chapter in the American experience. I ask all Americans to close ranks, to avoid recrimination about the past, to look ahead to the many goals we share and to work together on the great tasks that remain to be accomplished...
...life is further enhanced by the tenacity with which Ivan Dejmal has been persecuted long after he was barred from any political or academic activity, even when he was reduced to waiting passively for any further repressive measures his tormentors might choose to subject him to." Harvard Chapter of the Committee Against Political Repression in the USSR and Eastern Europe
...relieved Congress approved funds ($327 million) for humanitarian aid and to finance the evacuation of Americans and Vietnamese. Ford seemed acutely aware that he was closing out a long chapter in American history. "It's been a pretty long era," Ford told reporters en route back to Washington. The withdrawal of the U.S. from Vietnamese affairs had lifted some burdens from his Administration, he said, "but it's added others?we'll have to wait and see how it balances...
...people of Vietnam. Americans, who played a crucial role in forcing their government to withdraw from Indochina, should rejoice in the Vietnamese triumph. And it may even turn out--if Americans are watchful--that President Ford was right, that the evacuation of Americans from Saigon closed "a chapter in the American experience." But for all its profound repercussions for the rest of the world, Tuesday's triumph belongs to the Vietnamese, first and foremost. To focus on the repercussions would be perverse, in the way that it was sick to talk of the Vietnam War as an American tragedy, creating...
...next chapter was written in the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct eleven days ago, when a speedy pace-setter named Bombay. Duck gave the champion all he wanted down the long stretch run of a grueling mile and one-eighth test...