Word: displays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...astonishment, half the class raised raised its hand. This half of the class was in essence saying that it would prefer for 30 to 40 per cent of the class to miss a lecture completely, rather than drag themselves to a lecture at noon on Friday. I found that display a disgusting and utter lack of consideration...
...latest gadgets in computer technology--including machines that walk, talk, type and speak foreign languages--were on display this weekend at Boston's Hynes Auditorium...
...pointless display of pique, the House voted, 215 to 200, against raising the ceiling on the national debt by nearly $100 billion, to $929 billion. The rejection underscored the anger of many Congressmen over the Administration's bud get and economic policies. But the defeat was more symbolic than real. When the House votes on the bill a second time, it is expected to pass. The alternative would be unthinkable even to conservatives: the Government would have to stop borrowing within a few weeks...
They noticed some photographs of John Kennedy. Special high-level dispensation was required before Ambassador Sargent Shriver-married to President Kennedy's sister Eunice-was permitted to keep the pictures of his brother-in-law on visible display...
Chou could display an extraordinary personal graciousness. When junior members of our party took ill, he would visit them. Despite the gap in our protocol rank, he insisted that our meetings alternate between my residence and the Great Hall of the People. The Chinese seemed to regard him with special reverence, to see in him of all their leaders a special human quality. On a visit in late 1975 I asked a young interpreter about Chou's health; tears brimmed in her eyes as she told me he was gravely ill. It was no accident that...