Word: explains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Under attack for having accepted an $18,000 private expense fund raised by California supporters, Nixon, the G.O.P. vice-presidential candidate, went on TV to explain and ask for a public verdict. One contribution he would never give up, Nixon said, was his daughters' dog Checkers?hence the name given the speech...
...neurotically irresolute at some times and unrealistically stubborn at others. Some attribute his firm anticolonial policy during the American Revolution to outright madness. The findings of Drs. Macalpine and Hunter require a modification of this view to take his physical illness into account. The new evidence may also explain the mysterious deaths of several of his ancestors and collateral relatives, including James I's son Henry and George's sister Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway. Both were rumored to have been poisoned by close relatives. Both actually may have died of the royal malady...
Class Perspective. The manual told students how to get jobs: "You're not afraid to work is the idea to get across"; "Don't dress like a slob." It also explained how to act: "Don't talk to workers like you know everything and they know nothing." It summed up the program's purpose: To get across "the identity of interests of students and workers" and spell out "the relationship of the Viet Nam and the other imperialist wars to their immediate demands, to the fact that they and their sons die in the war, that...
...when he died last week at 77, the best way that associates could find to explain his success was to note that he had an extraordinary ability to make people like and trust him. So they sought his advice, followed his call to Washington and, when they had new securities to market, brought them to him at Goldman, Sachs & Co., the investment banking house in which Weinberg was senior partner...
...explain that they are not trying to convert people to their way of life. "We want to make them more God-conscious," one man said. They believe that their movement has relevance to the modern world. "Young people are attracted [to the movement] because they are dissatisfied with the material life," said a young married woman...