Word: faraway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unexpected, dissent, the court's foremost libertarian, Hugo Black, objected to the act's requirements that offending states clear any new voting laws with the U.S. Attorney General or with the federal District Court in Washington, D.C. By forcing the states to "entreat federal authorities in faraway places for approval of local laws," protested Black, the act implied that they were "little more than conquered provinces...
...lamps. A tri-level restaurant affords virtually every table a front-row view of the ocean. Rockefeller's total costs come to an astronomical $100,000 per room-a handsome bet on the hope that intelligent and affluent tourists will spend the extra effort to get to his faraway paradise rather than stop short at Waikiki Beach...
...more and more Americans take off each year for business and pleasure in faraway places, many of them wonder how they can, if necessary, find a good doctor who speaks English. For $5 a year, the foresighted traveler is now able to get answers covering more than 107 cities in 59 countries...
However fulfilling this one dimension may seem, Vaughn does have another. Like many TV and movie actors who hit it big, he speaks with a faraway look about the "basic conflict between my need for artistic fulfillment and my love of luxury." In most cases, this sort of statement is mere calisthenics for the lower lip. But Robert Vaughn is different. He is well on his way toward his doctorate, in a remarkable department at the University of Southern California that bridges the fields of journalism, political science, drama, cinema, radio and television...
...white and blue inaugural bunting was down from the lamp posts and buildings throughout Santiago, and the distinguished visitors had returned home to such faraway places as Ghana and Senegal. Last week Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei, 53, Chile's newly-installed president by virtue of a resounding victory over Communist-backed Salvador Allende, called his first Cabinet meeting and got down to the toil of pulling his country back from the cliff edge of financial ruin...