Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate, the Powell Amendment would have brought on a Southern filibuster. Had Kennedy labored to get the amendment dropped in conference committee, he would have antagonized Negro voters. Kennedy was content to see the bill die, passed the word to Trimble to do nothing. He thereby avoided needlessly antagonizing teachers, Negroes and Southerners...
...Africa's exploding forces to their will completely. The West has in Africa economic and political stakes that will not be lightly surrendered. What the Soviets could do-and presently seem determined to do-is to prolong and enhance the turmoil in Africa to destroy Western influence there, content to settle for chaos where they cannot control...
...haze. When fabulously rich Croesus of Lydia rashly decided to march against the upstart, he did so on the ambiguous advice of an oracle: "If you cross the river Halys, you will destroy a great empire." The empire Croesus destroyed was his own. but he too found himself quite content to serve his new master...
...Boston, gave it up to buy a drugstore in home town Wollaston, Mass., soon was $40,000 in debt. "What I really wanted," says Johnson, "was to have a product I could call by my own name." He settled on ice cream, made it attractive by doubling the butterfat content, using natural flavors, serving heaping cones. In 1929 he opened his first restaurant in Quincy, Mass., lost money -but continued to add new ice-cream flavors and open ice-cream stands. He won the public with billboard ads of his son and daughter holding big cones and saying: "We love...
...gallons of beer worth 40 million rubles-owing in part to on-the-job consumption. In order to make up their quota, they began putting water in the Zhiguli (named for a Volga River beauty spot). Even after a state inspector popped in unexpectedly and found the water content too high, brewery officials and workers kept pouring it in. When a formidable team of ministry investigators moved in, officials tried to get out of the mess by cutting the beer's aging period from 21 days to 3, using extra malt, juggling the books, rigging scales so that...