Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...socialism is the elimination of the fragmentation of humanity in petty states and the individualism of nations-not only the coming closer of nations to each other, but their merger or fusion...
...these not the same men who have constituted the majority of our leadership through recent years? These who cannot even hold a convention without chaos? Perhaps we are closer to anarchy than we suspect. Or is that what Wallace has been trying to tell...
...Brownsville section of Brooklyn. Set up last year to test the potential problems and benefits of decentralization, the project gave a community-controlled committee the right to evaluate teachers, supervise curriculum and spend funds allocated by the central school board. The hope was that community involvement would lead to closer rapport with teachers, more interested students, a better curriculum and, above all, a halt in the steady decline in student skills...
...crashers, 250 members of the mounted Guarda Nacional Republicana were on hand at the Quinta do Vinagre: inside, 200 blue-liveried servants passed around flutes of champagne and a midnight snack of lobster salad. All night, the local Portuguese crowded to get a closer look at Gina Lollobrigida in a plunging pink ballgown, the Begum Aga Khan's colossal diamond necklace and Sukarno's ex-wife Ratna Sari Dewi in a tight red gown. Someone remembered that it was Henry Ford II's 51st birthday, and everyone sang "Happy Birthday, dear Henry," while he blew...
Show of Support. Dismayed as Humphrey was by his party's confused, cacophonous mood, he began to brighten perceptibly as the balloting got under way and moved him ever closer to the nomination. The total mounted toward the needed 1,312. "Oregon is zilch," said Humphrey; his fellow Minnesotan, Senator Eugene McCarthy, had won its 35 votes in the May primary. Humphrey leaned forward expectantly, then broke into a wide grin as Pennsylvania put him over the top with 103¾ votes. "Pennsylvania started it and Pennsylvania put us over!" said the jubilant Humphrey, recalling that the state's show...