Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appalled -at discovering that his own values were unfashionable there. So, in 1951, Buckley produced a bestselling book called God and Man at Yale. It accused the Yale faculty, in sweeping terms, of teaching along anti-Christian and anticapitalistic lines. God and Man at Yale became a pro and con reference point for political eggheads of both the left and right...
...drunk at Saint-Malo." If Prendergast felt the sting, he left no record of it. His brush became still looser, his rhythms more intricate, his outlines so subtle that his paintings almost began to look as if they had been woven. But for all their technical innovations, his works con tinued to reflect a childlike world eternally at play...
...Hispanos, Billy Graham con nosotros," the signs proclaimed in buses and stores and the old favorite hymns they sang would have startled many a Bible-belter: The Old Rugged Cross was La Cruz de Jesus, What a Friend We Have in Jesus was Oh, Qué Amigo!, and Wonderful Words of Life was Oh, Contádmelas Otra...
...strike deadline neared, Carey offered to extend the deadline-and con tract-but G.E. refused to extend the contract. At week's end representatives of all I.U.E. locals (which represent 70,000 of G.E.'s 240,000 employees) met in Manhattan, voted to strike. G.E. announced it would keep its plants open for all employees who wanted to work...
...trouble finding clients when news got around that he never took a fee from the poor, even offered them handouts. Within a few months, Chippy's waiting room and the corridor outside it were jammed every weekday morning with as many as a hundred dips, degenerates, con men, pete busters, second-story types. check artists, swindlers, arsonists, rapists, murderers, and a generous assortment of poor but honest citizens in trouble...