Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...citizens of the capital of Renaissance art once again watched in silent disbelief as the floodwaters of the "royal stream" receded. This time, the raging tide had swept down from the mountainous north in a wide arc through Florence. The waters killed at least 100 persons, dealt a severe blow to the economy of one-third of Italy, and ruined countless millions of dollars' worth of Florentine masterpieces...
...three to the right. There is a core of consistency in his work that reconciles the "left" tone of U.S.A. with the "rightist" color of District of Columbia. Big Business was the enemy in U.S.A. In District, the focus of power shifted: the first novel in that trilogy dealt with the power of Communism to corrupt innocent idealism; the second was a primer on political demagoguery; the third a parable directed against the emotional debaucheries of the New Deal in its Popular Front war phase. Most Likely to Succeed, his latest novel, repeats that theme...
Part of the problem lies with the generally low caliber of reporters in Viet Nam, and having dealt with many of them in the past year. I strongly concur in General Marshall's statements. However, not all the Viet Nam correspondents are that bad. Fact stories that are not bloody or sensational just don't sell. A major portion of the Viet Nam news failure lies with editors at home. A comparison of the extent and depth of news coverage of Luci Johnson's wedding or Senator Robert Kennedy's every move with that afforded...
Spanish checkpoint on the border. Last week Spain dealt the colony the cruelest jab yet. At the border, Spanish police swung two heavy iron gates across the road and turned a key in a rusty padlock, halting all vehicular traffic and overland trade between Gibraltar and the mainland...
...Confession." Simmons is convinced that U.S. consular officials dealt him an even worse blow three weeks later after Mexican newspapers headlined a "confession" by another man-a psychotic Texas physician who had been arrested near Múzquiz for running around naked while shooting up an Indian village with a .22 rifle. Not only did the doctor roughly answer Hilda's description, but on the day of the murder he had been seen carrying a .22 pistol only six miles from where the shooting occurred. According to newsmen and the Múzquiz police chief, the doctor repeatedly stated...