Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conscience tells me ... that I cannot prolong the bad dreams that continue to reopen a chapter that is closed. My conscience tells me that only I, as President, have the ... power to firmly shut and seal this book. My conscience says it is my duty not merely to proclaim domestic tranquillity, but to use every means I have to ensure...
...response of some city councilors to the black patrolmen's complaint angered community groups including the local chapter of the NAACP and the Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee, as well as many white civic leaders. Council independents Daniel Clinton, Walter Sullivan and Thomas Danehy made public statements last month that led one civic group to charge "racism" in the city council...
...concretely in terms that bespeak familiarity rather than scholarly distance. And he discovers them embedded in the day-to-day encounters and imaginative responses that made up Bruce's life. Bruce's life, his work and days, not the order or development of Goldman's critical ideas, provide the chapter-by-chapter organization of Ladies and Gentlemen. The book proceeds as a reconstruction of that life out of masses of interviews and recollections. It draws as well on Goldman's own encounters with Bruce's various benighted worlds...
...oath of office as President of the United States?" "I am, sir," Ford replied. Even before the Chief Justice asked him to do so, Ford raised his right hand, placing his left on a Bible held by his wife. It was opened to the Book of Proverbs, third chapter, fifth and sixth verses, which Ford says every night as a prayer.* Then, at 12:03 p.m., repeating the oath of office, Gerald Ford formally became the 38th President of the United States. (In fact, Ford assumed the presidency at 11:35 a.m., when Nixon's formal letter of resignation...
...ephemerality of existence recurs throughout the novel. In the opening chapter, Toru gazes out at the harbor and watches a ship appear...