Word: cp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sell Canada 18 CP-140 surveillance aircraft, valued at $700 million, Lockheed had to agree to spend $900 million in that country. Such deals ultimately result in a smaller piece of the action for U.S. planemakers; by the same token, there is less economic pain if orders are canceled...
...much less eventful than his first 40 years. He divorced his wife of 18 years, Delia del Carril, and moved in with Mathilde Urrutia, about whom he wrote The Captain's Verses. That work went unsigned for many years not, as some critics said, because the CP disapproved but because, Neruda explains in the Memoirs, the passionate love for Urrutia he splashed throughout The Captain's Verses would have caused his wife unnecessary and harsh anguish...
...younger member suggested that they should use the money in ways that would more directly aid local residents. "You cut CP and I'll cut you," snapped a member who has served on the board since 1968. "If you came to a few more meetings you'd know why we need the money." Finally, by the time the meeting had ended at midnight, the policy board had reached a compromise. Board members congratulated one another as they left...
...American Inquisition is written with all the attention to style and accuracy of a political flyer. The prose is so sodden with self-righteousness and heavy irony that only the faithful (i.e., "heretics") might hope to find it tolerable. And Belfrage has also retained that annoying CP habit of stating a half-truth as gospel and then scampering off to make a different point. He notes that no one accused of espionage by Elizabeth Bentley, Louis Budenz or Whitaker Chambers "was ever convicted of spying," without bothering to add that the statute of limitation for espionage protected most...
Although the number of seniors telling OG&CP that their eventual vocation will be law has remained the same for ten years, the number of people planning to go to law school has increased by 50 per cent in the same ten years. As one House pre-law advisor remarked, "They [students] see Howard Cosell on television and want to become a lawyer...