Word: dotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...education bill, Republicans were bitterly vocal about the President's demands that the measure be passed without any change whatsoever. A G.O.P. minority on the Senate Education Subcommittee had signed a statement saying: "This important and complex piece of legislation is to pass this body without a dot or comma changed, this by fiat from the Chief Executive." Republicans sent up amendment after amendment; all were voted down. Finally, as Colorado's Senator Peter Dominick stood at his desk shouting, "I for one resent the whole procedure," the education bill was passed by a vote...
There are places in Brazil, that troubled but rich giant, where just scuffing a shovel in the dirt might produce treasures to dream about. To prove it, communities like Diamantina, Turmalina, Esmeralda, Ametista dot the country. Last week the scene was Cristalina (pop. 3,800), an interior town some 60 miles south of Brasilia, once the center of a fabulous quartz-crystal boom and now devoted largely to agriculture and cattle raising...
...their confidence he shamelessly acts their age. Every night after work and all day Sunday ("Funday"), Sam spouts Sam-made nursery rhymes ("Old Mother Bannister sat on her canister"), talks baby talk ("Dot a nedache. Dot pagans in my stumjack") and justifies his egotism by spieling off a sermon on world federation or the evils of drink or his own "beautiful soul and sympathetic life story." His object, he piously proclaims, is to create "splendid men and women to work for progress." But when his eldest daughter shows signs of becoming a splendid woman, Sam savagely attempts to destroy...
...Hartsfield, who took to the telephone to round up support for the dinner. "I had to do a little selling job," said Hartsfield. "I reminded them that the whole town gave Bobby Jones a parade when he won the four golf titles, and that they had turned out for Dot Kirby and, 35 years earlier, for Alexa Stirling when each won the women's national golf championship. I reminded them that they gave a big welcome to Atlanta's war heroes too. Dr. King, I told them, was being honored as a Nobel prizewinner, not because...
...human quarrels on an absurdly tiny earth: "Think of our world as it looks from the rocket that is heading toward Mars. It is like a child's globe, hanging in space, the continents stuck to its side like colored maps. We are all fellow passengers on a dot of earth. And each of us, in the span of time, has really only a moment among our companions. How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way." Often...