Word: consisting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, U.S. post offices have been adorned with mug shots of the FBI's "ten most wanted fugitives." No longer does the list consist solely of men on the lam for felonies like rape and kidnaping. Young radicals charged with guerrilla violence now dominate the expanded, 16-name list...
...sure, Canada has a weak, watered-down version of the game, played primarily by onetime American college stars who couldn't cut it in their homeland. The British Commonwealth and certain nations associated with its cultural tradition indulge in a footballish sport called rugby, which seems to consist in considerable part of beefy mesomorphs huddling in a heap called a "scrum" and jostling each other for possession of the ball. Throughout most of the non-American world, football means soccer. It is finally beginning to catch on in the U.S., which may be a good thing, but to unsensitive...
...master sergeant's alcoholic reverie? Not at all. That vision of the future U.S. Army was soberly presented last week by the Pentagon as a realistic goal to be achieved within three years as part of an all-out drive to make the U.S. armed forces consist solely of volunteers. Ideally, Selective Service would be reduced to a stand-by status, its machinery available only in an emergency requiring an unusual mobilization of manpower...
...worry to all Utopians devoted to an ultimate brotherhood of man." Yet this xenophobia, which Ardrey considers innate, not only knits a society but defines it: "The stranger is necessary, and antagonism directed against him has a biological basis beyond wishful denial. The hostility assures that the group will consist of familiars...
...Bennett affirmed his resolve to support the GM management. On May 18 the Corporation made its announcement: "All but a handful of the communications consist of a recommendation unsupported by consideration of what seem to us to be difficult issues raised by the resolutions. We believe that these issues can best be resolved not by a head count of supporters and opponents, but by thoughtful consideration of the means proposed to effect changes most of us desire...