Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What made the first two Band albums perhaps the greatest white American rock was their combination of Dylan's approach to lyrics with a tight sense of musicianship that Dylan's records rarely achieved. Though their third, Stage Fright, was stylistically similar to the others, it seemed to lack content, as though Robbie Robertson was really straining to come up with new material. Though the singing and playing were excellent, most of the songs didn't seem to justify the effort...
...leading gas pipeline company with interests in oil. He was the first Governor to veto a war-on-poverty project. He was an indifferent executive, bored by the daily routines of office. A former staffer remembers: "John would come alive when there was a big issue. Otherwise he was content to leave the ship of state to his staff." Connally made few friends among the state's minority groups. Once he refused to meet representatives of a procession of Texas-Mexicans who had walked 350 miles to the state capital to urge him to support a minimum wage...
...ourselves and world Jewry," he said. "Our closest neighbors are our bitterest enemies, refusing to accept our existence." But Israel, he went on, "was never intended to become a Hebrew Sparta. Our strength will not be determined solely by our military power and economic wealth, but by the special content of our lives and our capacity to cling to our unique heritage...
Once back in Washington, Nixon was not content to simmer while Democratic...
...opposition of the N.A.A.C.P. turned out to be well founded. Not content with just overturning the integration plan, irate members of the Citizens' Committee circulated a recall petition against the four school board members who had voted for the plan and got a surprising 130,000 signatures. At the subsequent election, all four were voted out of office in the first successful recall in Detroit's history. Said Edward Zaleski, a policeman and a founder of the Citizens' Committee: "We were fighting for our children. They were fighting only for an idea...