Word: discord
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bride and groom as a first-wedding-anniversary present, and a tape-recorded You Are There commentary by a mellifluous announcer who describes the garb, step, and emotional tone of the whole wedding party. Mrs. Doran advises parents to keep the recording a secret until there are rumors of discord in the newlyweds' happy home. "If the young couple have been squabbling," she says, "you'd be surprised how quickly playing that record straightens them...
...Conant, 67, last week received a $300,000 Carnegie Corporation grant for his next project: a two-year survey of teacher recruitment and training. Planning to canvass 1,000 education schools while delving into the quicksand area o-teacher certification, Conant hopes that his report will "quiet somewhat the discord in the field...
...seal. But they were forgeries, and only the latest of a series with which the Communists have plagued the West in recent years. Chief Communist forgery center seems to be a clandestine installation in East Berlin's outlying OberSchöneweide. Most forgeries have been designed to sow discord between the Western allies or between them and the uncommitted nations of the world. Usually they are suitably low-keyed and close enough to the real thing to achieve at least passing effect...
...Expecting total success in marriage may be the cause of marriage failures." A good family should have some "discord and dissent." The principal also holds true for politics, where success can not be measured, Demos suggested. "We should not demand success where there can be none...
During the campaign, Democratic orators promised a grand symphony as pure as the lost chord if only a Democratic President was elected to work with the Democratic Congress. But last week, as the various virtuosos of the U.S. Senate began the tune-up for the 87th Congress, the discord sounded hauntingly familiar...