Word: dones
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waiting for the President to greet the crowd, was a man who had always been suspicious of the show of religion in statecraft. Still, touched by the spiritual nature of the day's events, he found himself wishing that Carter would say grace, something that has never been done in memory at a state dinner. Almost as if there had been thought transference. Carter then announced that he wanted to say a prayer. The astonished Clifford bowed his head...
...Pendulum does not create a soothing rhythm in the mind; it sounds with the terrible urgency of a time bomb. The explosion is near, says Whiteside, the message is clear. The U.S. has already seen what dioxin has done to Viet Nam. There is no earthly reason for Americans to keep bringing the war home...
Certainly, more than the faces and physiques of the greats have lent contours to the archetype. It is premature if not fatuous to say that any man looks like a President before he has done the job. Sixscore years ago, many voters thought that one candidate was much too awkward and homely to fit the task...
After implying for several years that a computer handles the freshmen House lottery from beginning to end, University officials admitted on Thursday that a portion of the housing assignment is done by hand, raising questions about the possibility of human error in the lottery...
...sins of the municipal fathers have placed New York City in a position where only the most drastic measures can restore it to a competitive position among American cities. Auletta never specifies what exactly should be done--that is not what his book is about. It is about a city that sought to do too much--to give what it didn't have, to take what it could not use. Auletta says the city wasn't murdered. It committed suicide...