Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...critics suggest that if he were elected, Carter's religious life might intrude on his acts as President; the objection echoes the fears that were raised about John F. Kennedy's Catholicism. Like Kennedy, Carter vows a strict separation of church and state, and denies that there is any conflict between the two. Says he: "The Bible says, 'Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's.' It doesn't say you have to live two lives. It doesn't say you have to be two people." On the contrary...
...nothing perks The Ear more than a chance to mention the O.P. (Other Paper, i.e., the Post), and the Fun Couple (Bradlee and his roommate-reporter, Sally Quinn). Bradlee has said he would fire any Post staffer caught whispering to The Ear ("I'd consider it a conflict of interest"), but O.P. items keep coming. The only success Bradlee has had in plugging The Ear came last winter, when Star Editor James Bellows, who dreamed up the feature and watches over it carefully, wanted to run a column to which the Post had rights. Bradlee assented, provided...
Police could not determine if the incident could be labeled as a "racial conflict...
Other oracles of undress view it differently. Says Choey Fong, owner of the C.M. Bazaar boutique: "Women are more comfortable with their equality with men and are willing to look feminine again. What is more womanly than bare shoulders?" Cynthia Margulies, fashion coordinator for Raleighs in Washington, senses a conflict in female emotions. Explains she: "Women don't know if they want to be daring and sexy or romantic and Victorian. These new tops bare the shoulder. But some of them come in puckered gingham. They're selling like mad and it's because women want...
...move quickly and figure how long something is going to be cooking and can I afford to be late for that or will I miss it," Stafford says. Now life is a little easier--he can send his lab assistant, Dave Bailey, on assignments if he has a real conflict. But he still can't do his job on a 9 to 5 schedule, so he misses his family often and feels bad because, financially, he says, "they haven't had the easiest time...