Word: decays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victorious candidates favor peace, law-and-order, fiscal responsibility in government and vigorous antipollution legislation. Conversely then, our enlightened electorate must have rejected war, crime, profligate governmental spending and environmental decay...
WHEN TWAIN, or Norris, or Bret Harte wrote of California's San Joaquin Valley, they wrote of burgeoning industry and pioneer ranchers: of a group of men who strove ruthlessly to throttle natural resources for their own profit. In Fat City, Leonard Gardner speaks only of status and decay, and a society where choices made by men are arbitrary and fruitless...
...nobles were cutting off the ears of outspoken foes. Happily, Guinness has his own ideas of how the role ought to be played. Hobbled by a stutter, consoled by a piety that assures him a crown in heaven, Guinness' Charles I is a not unsympathetic custodian of decay, unable to negotiate-how could a King make bargains?-even for his own life...
Hubert Williams was a sergeant and precinct commander in the most heavily hit area during the 1967 New-ark race riots and has walked a beat for eight years in that city, which some people point to as the finest example of urban decay in the nation...
...campus mayhem and rising crime have added not only social hazards but also economic costs to everyday life. When a house is burglarized or a school vandalized, almost everybody has to pay some part of the bill-through higher insurance rates. Changes in society, including the real or imagined decay of moral standards, have also exacted a toll. Insurance executives used to assume that loss claimants were honest; now the presumption is that many people cheat a bit. Greedy motorists and crooked repairmen conspire to kite repair bills and split the dividend. Noting that fire losses have climbed...