Word: donning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Of the 152 programs the new agency will oversee, 131 of them come from the Office of Education. Just establishing the new department will eat up more than $14 billion of federal funds--a large and misdirected sum for a goal as vague as increasing the "visibility" of educational issues...
He had finished reciting four of his six listed reasons why SALT II was a "significant step" towards controlling the arms race when Thomas F. Kelly of Dorchester stood up and began shouting. "I'm a Vietnam vet and I don't have to take this shit anymore..." Brown stepped...
Then Allison took a microphone beside the stage. His voice fraught with barely restrained anger, Allison warned the man: "If you don't shut up right now, Secretary Brown will leave." As if on cue, the audience greeted Allison's remarks with thunderous applause. The students spoke with one clear...
But nobody gets too tense. The bridge game among the St. Elizabeth's parish ladies continues on the sidewalk. A red-and-white taxicab pulls up and, out of the back seat pops an entrepreneur. "$1.75 for sandwich and coffee," he shouts. "Profiteer," someone jeers. "Don't you feel guilty...
He does it with good humor, laughing at the deluge. He does it with courage, calling on strife-torn Boston to forsake racial violence. He does it with simple humility--"the Pope is your friend," he says to the largest cheers of the day. But most of all he wins...