Word: dones
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when we were facing problems, we didn't throw up our hands in despair." "No!" shouts the crowd. "We didn't talk about malaise in the American spirit." "No!" comes the reply. "We rolled up our sleeves." "Yes!" the people shout. "And set out on the job to be done...
Burke, 26, the Senator's administrative assistant. There are only men at the top level of Kennedy's staff; women work in subordinate jobs. Aides have urged him to put women in senior positions, but he has not done...
They have done so partly because of a nostalgia for his brother's Administration, for Camelot. Says California Pollster Mervin Field: "Kennedy's popularity is an accumulated, generational perception. He is part of the American culture." No matter that John Kennedy blundered into the Bay of Pigs and first widened the war in Viet Nam and saw almost none of his main legislative proposals pass Congress. Americans have a sense, says Theodore H. White, the chronicler of Presidents, "that Jack Kennedy's Administration was the last one in which it seemed that politics could give people control of their destiny...
...meteor or Hurricane David. It is the Yale football team. And it is threatening to do something that has not been done in recent memory--keep the Ivy season from going down to the last week before the championship is determined...
...occasion arises. "You can never tell when something will call it up." says Burr, adding that because it has no staff and pays no salaries, the Committee does not threaten to hurt anyone or anything. "Supposing it never meets," he asks, and adds quickly, "there's no harm done...