Word: esteems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Time acknowledged that "Williams has the correct outline of the FBI tape story. What he does not have is precisely what happened at the celebrated meeting . . . Hoover, Time learned . . . suggested that King should tone down his criticism of the FBI. King took the advice. His decline in black esteem followed, a decline scathingly narrated by Williams." Besides the obvious attempt to undermine Williams' credibility, Time makes no mention of King's role in the aceldama at Pettus Bridge, or of any other event that might have motivated him to strike out in new directions...
...enough-for they backed away from him, turned the glare of their annihilating publicity on others." But, by maintaining this policy of silence, the press "became partners in both the breaking of King and the attempted destruction of a movement for which they once seemed to hold great esteem...
...slept through it). Their boffo running gag: a rubber chicken purchased as a complement to Sheely's chicken jokes. The chicken made regular appearances in beds and toilets around the jurors' hotel rooms at the Ambassador (cleverly dubbed the "Dambassador"). As a token of their esteem, the group at trial's end presented the chicken to Judge Older...
...continuing support among fund-raisers and students. A recent Gallup poll reports that, after Lind say, McCarthy holds second-place in the political hearts of college students. He outdistances. Muskic, Kennedy and McGovern. However, the poll registers all opinions. Among politically active students, McCarthy is doubtless regarded with less esteem. And while most students admire McCarthy, they would not support him with the old fervor...
...meet them. Sheer exhaustion causes many to drop out of swinging after two years or so of frantic activity. More important is disillusionment. Finally able to act out adolescent fantasies, many swingers find that the fantasies were better than reality. Besides, there is generally a loss of self-esteem and identity, and an absence of commitment to partners whom they may well never see again. "This total noninvolvement represents the antithesis of sexual pleasure...