Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...claimed, he would have raised the total to just over 1,400-including pledges he expected to pick up from uncommitted delegates in half a dozen states. McGovern was also hoping to pry loose some 40 to 50 black delegates, even though they were reluctant for the moment to desert Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm before she had a chance at least to be nominated. If McGovern "nickeled and dimed" his way to Miami Beach, picking up delegates anxious to join a winner's bandwagon, he could turn the convention balloting into a mere ratification ceremony...
...Testament the Devil was satan, the Hebrew word for adversary, as in the Book of Job. Throughout the Old Testament, he remains clearly subject to the wrath and will of Yahweh. But the New Testament began to give the Devil stature, especially with Jesus' temptation in the desert, when the Devil offered him all the kingdoms of the world (Matthew...
...drama. There are moments when even the characters realize that a scene they are enacting would make an impressive page of art or a vision in the Bible--a white woman walking through a market full of Indians, for instance, feels like the angel looking for Jacob in a desert encampment of unbelieving women. And several times, Wilson mentions visual images that have stirred his own imagination--a curled brown photograph of Juan Tushim's grandfather, a scene in Bunuel's Las Hurdes in which a plain child's coffin is carried down through Spanish passes on the shoulders...
...huge corporations (like Gulf) it is all but impossible for even relatively large stockholders (like Harvard) to effect changes in company policy through the normal channels of corporate elections and proxy decisions. And when institutional stockholders refuse even to join in a symbolic assertion of their rightful powers, they desert the responsibilities that come with the power of money and throw their lot in with the men who go to any length and support any government, to maximize profits. As long as corporation directors piously claim that their only concern should be to multiply the dollars of their investors. Harvard...
Faced with this situation, we can attempt to disengage from all these forms of indirect support, but it would be difficult to do so without virtually retiring to a desert island. My point, however, is not that it is impractical to take this course, but that it is self indulgent and immoral as well...