Word: crediters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suburban Virginia and Maryland and cough on the tear gas and paw through the rubble looking for unbroken liquor bottles and missed jewelry. Most of them were uninsured and ruined. Few would return to the inner city, where their ancestors had made their fortunes in the small cut-rate credit furniture stores of 7th Street...
Sure enough, I could only complete 20 of 110 on the speed tests. But to my credit they were all correct. As we walked down to the second floor's commander I began to suspect that my effort didn't impress Captain Johnston. The second floor commander was more cheerful but then he had a window open...
...could say isn't it strange--that our university which has, at Commencements these last years, honored politicians and international bankers, scientists and poets, journalists, scholars, and headmasters of elite preparatory schools, had not seen fit to honor--not what we use to call in the old parlance "a credit to his race," but the controversial prod to our self-satisfaction, the extraordinary moral teacher of our time, the prophet of living religious faith, the leader of a truly democratic movement of Americans for freedom and for peace...
...Viet Nam, says Washington Post Reporter Ward Just, who covered the war there for 18 months, "it was no trick to find the facts to back up the impressions, or the preconceptions: facts were everywhere, and with suitable discrimination could be used to support almost any argument." To his credit, Just does not argue. To What End is an almost apolitical and unusually successful attempt to convey a sense of Viet Nam's violent confusion...
...early to tell whether the new young men are princes or pretenders. The old caliphs already have credit for a string of masterpieces, from Citizen Kane to Shane, while their successors still have most of their pet projects in scenario or on camera. Hollywood is waiting to see whether they are merely doing cosmetic surgery or whether they can truly change the town...