Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brown administration dealt successfully with two crises this month, and as far as student protest goes they seem to be out of the woods--at least...
Kissinger's hand was even apparent in the key portions of Ford's address that dealt with places outside the crisis area of Indochina, where he talked about the need "to recover our balance." Ford showed more emotion, and drew his first spurts of Republican applause, on three issues known to be especially bothersome to the Secretary of State. In each case, Ford was protesting what he considered encroachments by the Democratic Congresses of recent years on Executive functions. They were...
...case of Furman v. Georgia, the Supreme Court dealt a staggering but not quite final blow to the death penalty in the U.S. Though all nine Justices wrote separate opinions, the sum controlling view appeared to be that most capital-punishment sentences were cruel and unusual because those few who faced the penalty were singled out in a "freakish," "arbitrary" and "capricious" manner. Supporters of capital punishment concluded that one way around the court's ruling would be to make death the mandated penalty for such crimes as first-degree murder and first-degree rape. Next Monday the Justices...
...match was especially upsetting for the Crimson, since it dealt the squad's Ivy League title hopes a serious blow. Barring any major upsets by the weaker Ivy teams, the team must now beat defending Ivy champion Princeton, whom it will face on May 9, and then the Tigers must beat Columbia if Harvard is to grab a share of the first-place laurels...
...pieces that the things those critics cared about weren't really important, that he knew what was really going on in America. He wrote about high-school kids customizing cars in California--they were the cutting edge of art, not the stuffed-shirts back East. Even when he dealt with the modern art scene, he treated it as an amusing cultural phenomenon, an elaborate set of strange conventions rather than as a serious endeavor. He wrote about mass culture in America and took digs at high culture, and he was a constant target of attacks in The New Yorker...