Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little trouble silencing its antagonists. Then, early in 1970, a new trend developed. Initially centered on rather specific, often personal grievances, it has evolved into a concerted movement for peace that has so far proved impossible to exorcise. A few of the more dramatic events reflecting this trend were dealt with briefly by the U.S. press. But such fragmentary accounts conveyed little of the urgency and significance of the actual situation in the cities. Once again, the American public has been kept in the dark of a news black-out, and information which would have exposed the political bankruptcy...
...sixth novel was withheld by the author of A Passage to India until after his death because, according to his literary executor W.J.H. Sprott, "He thought there would be some stir about it and he did not want to be involved." Forster's own homosexuality is dealt with movingly by his authorized biographer, P.N. Furbank, in the current issue of Encounter. "He achieved physical sex very late," writes Furbank, "and found it easier with people outside his own social class; and it remained a kind of private magic...
...J.P.L. experimenters reduced the margin of error to 4% or less by locating the distant spacecraft within 100 ft. of their actual position. Thus, when they calculated that the signal to Mariner was slowed down by 204 millionths of a second on its round trip, they dealt the Brans-Dicke theory a sharp if not decisive blow. Their measurement was only 4 millionths of a second off the Einsteinian prediction, but 18 millionths of a second off the Brans-Dicke figure...
...meeting of about 250 Cambridge residents in St. Mary's church hall, the Convention voted on and passed five resolutions dealing with the housing crisis in Riverside. Three of these dealt with Harvard. They...
These are all possibilities to be foreseen and dealt with. Nixon, when crossed, is a very dangerous man. He can be defeated at the polls if liberals stick together and remain calm. Fortunately it appears that the Democrats will have the kind of men who can effectively counter the Nixon Mania...