Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your cover story on General Westmoreland [May 5] succinctly captured the whole sense of our commitments and intentions for carrying that war to its inevitable conclusion. Had Johnson thus forcefully and unmistakably phrased our goals long ago, we would now be much closer to a victory, with no nation unaware of our national resolve...
...Rocky's strategy 100% altruism? Probably closer to 99%. If, despite all his efforts, the Romney campaign for the nomination were to be clearly failing a year from now, Lord Nelson might then with good grace allow himself to be towed forcibly into the convention under his own flag...
...male journalists, today's women's page is often read by as many men as women. Under the spirited direction of Charlotte Curtis, the New York Times's page often focuses on men: their travail when they go shopping with their wives, their attempts to get closer to their kids by familiarizing them with office life. Women's golf, once confined to the sports page of the Houston Post, now appears on the women's page in a column titled "Tee and Sympathy...
...Modigliani, Bonnard, Degas, and on and on. For insurance purposes, they had been appraised by New York Art Expert Carroll Hogan at $1,362,750. On the market, works by such artists might fetch $3,000,000. But, confided Oilman Meadows to his admiring guests, they had cost him "closer to $400,000 than a million," and maybe as little...
Room for Experience. Meadows' problems with art experts may not be ended. In 1962, he offered Southern Methodist University a new museum, to be stocked with his collection of Spanish old masters, and endowed it with $1,000,000. But art scholars are now taking a closer look at Meadows' Spanish collection mostly bought from one Madrid art dealer and valued at $3,000,000. Already one expert has flatly declared the El Greco Annunciation a fake, and others are being questioned...