Word: crashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promises to keep; from those who voted against him, there are conflicting demands. He has failed to improve his relations with black Americans, and he has been unable really to placate white Southerners who feel that the pace of integration is too quick. Many intellectuals and journalists anticipate the crash of crockery with glee...
Last week there could be heard in Washington, if not yet a crash, then at least an ominous clattering sound. Ironically, much of the noise came from Nixon's fellow Republicans. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch, who had taken a drubbing a week earlier in the Knowles affair, found himself forced to compromise his strong stand on school desegregation guidelines. That Nixon decision angered liberals of both parties and blacks, as did the Administration's introduction of a transparently weak voting-rights, proposal. An affirmative House vote on the income tax surcharge extension bill constituted...
Reasoner, talking about bridges as cam eras frame the Verrazano Narrows span across New York harbor: "Man has made a sewer of the river and spanned it with a poem." Reasoner discussing Americans' fascination with automobile races: "They don't come to see a crash, but if there were never any crashes they'd never come," Because of such commentaries, Harry Reasoner is widely recognized for his wit and perception; in 1966 he received a Peabody Award for his droll television essays. Reasoner is indeed wit ty and perceptive, as he shows in the radio...
Cool Rescue. Snapped electrical cables writhed about the Evans' decks, shooting off sparks. Hunks of metal gouged from the destroyer were welded to Melbourne's superstructure by the intense frictional heat of the grinding crash. In the stern, Evans' crewmen, most of whom were asleep in their bunks, were tossed about by the fearful force of the impact. Soon trained instincts replaced shock, and the crew calmly battened down watertight doors to keep the hulk afloat...
Died. Rafael Osuna, 30, Mexico's dazzling tennis star, who less than two weeks before his death achieved his greatest triumph by leading his country to a stunning 3-2 conquest of Australia in the North American Zone Davis Cup competition; in the crash of a Mexicana Airlines jetliner; near Monterrey, Mexico...