Word: discarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sensible step would be simply to cut the Olympics down to governable size. A move is already under way to discard repetitive events in certain sports, notably swimming, where four basic strokes are parlayed into innumerable races. Also, it is not necessary for a nation to field three athletes in every event, as the major powers invariably do; surely, two would be sufficient. Perhaps only the world's 15 best, based on established records, should compete; team sports, such as basketball and soccer, which exacerbate national combativeness, might well be dropped; this alone would represent a giant step back...
Scenarist Serling's adaptation of Irving Wallace's novel is full of cheap chatter and the kind of bombast ("We cannot murder tyranny by murdering the tyrant") that even a Washington speechwriter might discard as overly florid. As portrayed by Jones, the hero is certainly fulsome enough to be a major political figure. Joseph Sargent's direction is energetic, consisting in large measure of dogging his actors with a mobile camera as they bolt through endless doorways along the corridors of power. -Jay Cocks
...Belgian Congo, has been preoccupied with a search for national "authenticity." He has changed dozens of place names reminiscent of colonial times, and the country itself is now known as the Republic of Zaïre. Mobutu has also decreed that all Zaïrians-beginning with himself-should discard their Christian names in favor of "authentic" African ones. As a final symbol of the new order, Mobutu changed the principal national holiday from June 30-its independence day-to November 24, the anniversary of his own coup...
That hill-country heehaw is no longer a laughing matter. After a series of messy political scandals, restive Texans turned out last week for the state primary in record numbers and shook the conservative Democratic establishment from top to bottom. When the spring cleaning was over, the discard pile included Governor Preston Smith, Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, 78 state legislators and scores of other veteran local officeholders...
...Unless there is immediate compliance we will be obliged to ask for a court order directing the defendants to show cause why they should not be held in contempt and put under sanctions compelling compliance with the order." Steiner said, "To dismiss the suit would be to discard one of the best hopes for putting an orderly end to the unlawful occupation...