Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prowled for hours on the nearly empty roads-bare flats of resting purple earth; gentle folded hills on which naked hardwoods are swallowed in tall pines black in winter green; slow wheeling buzzards, hawks stalled above like statues of hawks, long crepe ribbons of starlings drifting south. The fact that crucial landmarks from the formative years of a man of present immense world power are spaced round at intervals with no signposts may come to seem trivial in the uninsistent grandeur of the place itself, the inhuman place...
...urgent needs of human continuance, of-more urgent still -the needs of the earth. You may even come away with something like my own sense that what is regrettable in Jimmy's life now is your and my presence in his native place; the fact that he cannot return here in peace and roam as I've done in absolute stillness past his boyhood house, the neighboring hovels, the empty woods, the acres of graves just up the road at the site of the prison at Andersonville, where almost 13,000 men died in 14 months to feed...
First he injected a touch of understated humor: "I've been coming to this city in one capacity or another for nearly 40 years, and I'm beginning to like the place. Wouldn't mind living here, in fact." (Laughter.) The smile faded. Next came a moment of graciousness: "I believe President Carter is a sincere, patriotic, hard-working man who wants very much to have a successful Administration." (A pause.) "But these qualities are insufficient to provide effective leadership...
...Reagan falters from fatigue in the 35-state primary siege that lies ahead, the age issue may not loom large. On ideology, Reagan and Connally have both staked out similar conservative positions. Reagan may be handicapped most by having lost last time. Connally's biggest liability remains the fact that he was once a Democrat and was once close to Nixon. In addition, although he was found innocent in 1975 of accepting $10,000 in bribes from dairymen, there was little doubt that he had helped them get higher price supports in the hope, if not a pledge, that...
What do the Republican Party and Detroit have in common? "The tendency on the part of some people to write them off as dead," Michigan Governor William Milliken said to the Republican National Committee in Washington. But, in fact, Milliken contended, both party and city are reviving...