Word: free
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President is sovereign because the law makes him that way, but also because time forces him to be. He is the only person who can move fleets and make diplomatic challenges. The U.S. is the only power in the free world that can orchestrate some events around the globe to bring pressure on the sore point...
...these consultations. What do these people want? Better living conditions, which we are granting. Higher wages, along with higher productivity. We are training them. They want to share in the progress and prosperity of the country, and they are to a large extent sharing it. Our black people are free in South Africa. They have never been slaves like the black people in America...
...year's most perverse children's book is Raymond Briggs' Fungus the Bogeyman (Random House; $4.95). Fungus is free to do what kids cannot: live underground, put grease in his hair, make things go bump in the night and in general be a grain of sand in the public eye. His adventures cover oversized pages full of puns ("Hullo, my dreary," "my direling") and bile green anatomy charts that provide a perfect send-up for the child who has ODed on gnomes and faeries...
Metropolitan Filaret of Kiev, who presided, later explains in his elegant headquarters residence that the surviving 4,000 churches are "more or less enough," despite the overflow visible at the cathedral. Parish priests, he adds, get a minimum of 150 rubles ($225) a month, often more, and usually a free, furnished apartment, sufficient to enable them to get by comfortably in the Soviet Union...
Thus the problems of the Great Lakes are not solved because the beach at Storing State Park on Lake Erie is officially opened again for the first time since 1961, or because the Cuyahoga River, while gray and sulky looking, is relatively free from oil and jetsam, or because the water treatment plant in Chicago is having fewer taste and odor problems. Says EPA's Swain: "We still have a long way to go before we solve the problems of toxic substances. Then there is a whole series of new environmental issues." Among them: sodium from the salt used...