Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, while peace proposals swirled about world capitals like autumn leaves, most came fluttering forlornly to earth. When a newsman asked the President last week whether there was any sign that an end to the war may be closer, Johnson replied: "I cannot, in frankness, be encouraging...
...arms, the mother representing the nation and the child its people, and it helped Mme. Xa come in as the Assembly's third highest vote getter. So did her calculated demeanor. "A woman must al ways be more careful than a man because she is being judged closer than he is," she explains. 'That doesn't mean you can't be Machiavellian. But be modest. They expect...
...little boy holding an apple. He swung the child against a cement wall and bashed out his brains. Then he contentedly munched the apple. The theater comes to be haunted with the screams of the tortured. The stench of death so invades the evening that the playgoer is often closer to choking than to crying...
...moral theologian, who teaches at the Academia Alfonsiana (a branch of the Lateran). Otherwise, the training is not much better-and in some ways worse -than what they would receive back home. While U.S. seminaries have all but abandoned Latin for lectures and brought their curriculums closer to those of secular liberal-arts colleges, the courses at Roman universities are still heavy on dogmatic theology and canon law, and the emphasis is on rote learning rather than creative thinking...
...usually avoids involvement in state party squabbles, loudly backed Christopher in the primary, saying, "I know where he stands-which is more than I can say about Ronald Reagan." Nevertheless, Reagan won with 64% of the votes -and pulled 50,000 more than Governor Brown did in a much closer Democratic race against maverick Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty...