Word: erects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their appearance, though the organization's upper age limit is 40. A lanky boy with a goatee jutting from his chin and a cowlick on the back of his head walked among the chatting delegates, hawking snap-shots of an astronaut standing on the moon next to a perfectly erect American flag. "They're copies made from a slide I got from an outfit in Houston," he explained. "Seventy-five cents...
When someone talks about a pyramid, there is a flash cut of an erect nipple; when the hoodlum dyes his hair, there is a cut to the singer spray-painting a wall. James Fox is nevertheless excellent as the gangster, and Jagger seems to be having a lark. Few others will share his pleasure...
...there was no way for Brewer to outpromise Wallace, who embraced the Brewer pledges and also proposed, among other things, to lower automobile-insurance rates, reduce the cost of gas, telephones and electricity, erect new medical schools and build four-lane highways in rural areas. He even implied that he would eliminate the sales tax on food, which would cost the state about $55 million in annual revenue...
...have had their effect on the senior Senator from Maine. Now 72, Margaret Chase Smith travels the Senate corridors on a motorized golf cart, or she uses a walking cane. But she remains among the most thoughtful and respected members of the Senate, her rose in place, her bearing erect, her hair lustrously silver. Last week, precisely two decades to the day of her anti-McCarthy speech, she stood in the Senate chamber, again making an eloquent and pointed appeal to the forces of moderation. Excerpts...
...hours, 100,000 members of New York's brawniest unions marched and shouted, milled and sang in a massive display of gleeful patriotism and muscular pride. Basking in the ticker-tape approval of cheering office workers crowding high windows in buildings many of DAVID BURNETT them had helped erect beam by beam and load by load, the hardhatted construction workers, teamsters and longshoremen rallied through the streets of Lower Manhattan in probably the biggest pro-Government rally since the Viet Nam War began. With a crude and forceful clarity, they signaled their support of President Nixon's policies...