Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issues with care, works diligently and displays tact with his elders. He can, and does, challenge leaders of both parties in disputes ranging from expanded social security benefits to ending the poll tax, but he avoids the maverick's stigma. He can and has gigged the Administration into paying closer heed to the Vietnamese refugee problem and dropping support for the National Rifle Association's annual matches, but he has not made himself controversial. In short, the senior Senator from Massachusetts seems determined to live up to John F. Kennedy's description of him as "the best politician...
...better against French products. It may be, of course, that the French miscalculated, hoping for a crisis that did not go as far as devaluation. In any event, De Gaulle's emissaries in Brussels this week made it clear that the devaluation certainly had not brought Britain any closer to Common Market membership...
...much the usual charge that he "hates people"; if he has defects, they are of the mind rather than the heart. He lacks the philosophic gravitas that his theme calls for. Perhaps he would have summoned more compassion for his subject had he chosen a family less demonic and closer to what one hopes to be the demographic norm...
...Would brobdingnagian be closer to the word for which you are groping...
Ground has been broken for Mather House--Harvard's tenth House--after the University brought construction costs closer in line with original estimates...