Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seen so many cliffhangers that I don't get acrophobia when I look over a cliff," quipped New York Governor Hugh Carey last week. Once again he was peering into the abyss of default. The helping hand he had expected from Gerald Ford had not been extended. In a statement only a little less tart than in the past, Ford said that if more "progress" was made, he would "review" New York's situation this week and consider some kind of relief. What he appears to want is a comprehensive plan to restore fiscal stability to the city...
...Bruin rout actually took place almost two hours before the opening kickoff, on a muddy field a mile and a half away from the stadium. Cliff Stevenson's forgotten soccer squad dominated Harvard for 90 minutes to post a 6-1 Ivy League romp...
...Mississippi, where only 10% of the voters are Republicans and the G.O.P. has not won a gubernatorial contest since 1873, Democrat Cliff Finch, 48, came on with the glad hand and confident smile of a winner (TIME, Nov. 3). Although he earned $150,000 last year as a lawyer, Finch campaigned as the "workingman's candidate," toting around a lunch pail and spending one day each week laboring on such blue-collar jobs as driving bulldozers and repairing automobiles...
...candidates, Democrat Cliff Finch and Republican Gil Carmichael, are relative newcomers who rose by challenging the power of Senator James O. Eastland, the state's most potent pol. Lawyer Finch, a former state legislator from Batesville, a sleepy farm town, won the Democratic nomination by upsetting Eastland's candidate, Lieutenant Governor William Winter, with a record 58% of the vote in the August primary runoff; it was the first time that Eastland had backed a loser...
...THIS sense of evil in the world, and the ultimate triumph over it, that gives Jimmy Cliff's music its vitality. This moral struggle between right and wrong, the forces of oppression and freedom, was missing from last Saturday's concert. Perhaps Jimmy Cliff was too happy a man to sing pain. A man who started his career back in 1962 and is just now cresting as a star, certainly deserves happiness. But most probably the crowd was too happy--happy getting it's money's worth from good music--to listen to pain and torment. In any case...