Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THAT is how the politician hero of Hogan's Goat, a recent play about the 19th century Irish in Brooklyn, recalls the era when ward politics was one of the few ways in which the immigrant masses could dream of sharing power. The ethnic vote-the vote of "our kind"-has remained part of the American political vocabulary for a century. Big-city bosses operated on the assumption that they could deliver that vote to whatever candidate they chose-all they needed was a Christmas turkey, a memory for the names of the children, and a fluency...
...era when the press is surfeited with armchair experts, the column's striking success can be traced to its emphasis on reporting rather than punditry. "Fresh fact is our thrust," says Evans. And often enough, the two men have uncovered facts that no one else put in print. They were the first to disclose that a member of California's John Birch Society had joined the prestigious "President's Club" and that he and his family had contributed $12,000 to the Democratic Party. After the column appeared, Democratic leaders in California forced the national committee...
...Thais, but nursed to fruition by the same Bangkok-based U.N. Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East that inspired the formation of the ADB, the fair opened with Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej releasing 2,509 pigeons - one for each year of the Buddhist era. The King then joined his beautiful wife, Queen Sirikit, for a swing through 250 acres of fairgrounds in a yellow Rolls-Royce...
Despite all the proud displays, a meaningful volume of intra-Oriental trade still remains a vision of the future. But the fair and the new Asian Development Bank could, as Japan's Premier Eisaku Sato put it at the ADB inaugural, mark the "opening of a new era in the history of Asia...
...first wife and wore out his second, having an aggregate of some dozen children. Like Rembrandt, he eventually went bankrupt, since, for all his subsequent popularity, he never during his life commanded the prices paid to Bartholomeus van der Heist, whose stiff portraiture was the rage of the era...