Word: forsaken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE IS NO REASON to think Ford has forsaken this goal. As recently as last year, he played an essential role in railroading Republican support for funds for the bombing of Cambodia; when Congress finally voted to stop the bombing, it was almost exclusively with Democratic votes. "Ford may be a plodder," the 1974 Almanac of American Politics noted, citing the votes on Cambodia, "but he is nevertheless an effective, competent minority leader." After his appointment as vice president, Ford continued to defend his record on civil rights (citing his support for the Philadelphia Plan to hire more blacks...
...government's study produces a negative report, the library will be squelched forever, forsaken as outdated. Yet if the study yields a positive report next September, the battle may switch to the courts as embittered community groups find ways to stop the construction...
Indeed, Hall seems to have forsaken the mysterious side of espionage, at least partly, in favor of technological high jinks. In the course of the novel, the careful reader will learn about the physical properties of telescopic rifles, soaring, nighttime airborne dead reckoning with a computer assist, and highspeed driving. Hall is also expansive on the techniques of clandestine radio communication...
...most part Willowbrook remains the snake pit it has always been. There is one difference now, though. It is a difference which will probably have no profound effect on Willowbrook but which has a killing effect on me. Now I have a friend living and dying in that god forsaken hell hole...
...Novelist Lessing, 53, does not have time for all that now. In the past 20 years she has written and lived her way through and forsaken such pangs and consolations as marriage, Freud, and the accomplishments of applied Marxism seem to offer. She is increasingly haunted by a vision of society's collapse, and maybe the world's-a coming darkness which at best will bring with it changes so radical that such things as the plight of the individual ego, for instance, or Women's Lib, will "look very small and quaint...