Word: driftings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These shortcomings become even more disturbing in light of rumors of corruption in city government. As Cambridge Democrats rally around the impeach-the-president flagpole, reports and hearsay drift up about city jobs bought and sold, spaces in public housing projects dispensed in return for favors, and city councillors paying parking tickets for major backers. City governments are seldom clean, but crushing dominance by one party makes honest government all the harder...
...Program Chief Lawrence White. As a result, notes Fred Silverman, CBS'S vice president of programming, there is a "public thirst for comedy" and for positive, nonviolent drama. Both executives agree with the president of ABC entertainment, Martin Starger, that "there's going to be a drift away from the law and order shows." If so, the drift will be so gradual as to be barely noticeable this year. Among the midseason replacements being readied for January are at least two more cop shows...
MCGUANE HAS little compassion for those who don't articulate their thoughts and so drift helplessly in emotional weakness. His lack of respect is reflected in the degree to which these characters remain caricature. But antecedents of Skelton's philosophical calculations are seen in his grandfather Goldsboro, head of the Key West mob and financier of the skiff...
...third largest city−has been besieged by Khmer insurgents. During the initial onslaught, government forces were split in two and Communist-backed troops invested more than half of the T-shaped Mekong River town. Late last week the tide of battle turned. The besiegers began to drift away, and the Phnom-Penh government claimed a significant victory. TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand rode a Cambodian helicopter into Kompong Cham, left the scene two days later with a convoy of wounded for the 75-mile voyage downriver to Phnom-Penh. His report...
...Arabs, according to Barakat, share a certain basic vocabulary of body language. They stand close together and frequently touch each other in a conversation, and they look each other in the eye constantly, instead of letting their gaze drift to the side as Americans do. Gesturing is done with the right hand, not the "unclean" left...