Word: freer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unguided Missile. Because the oil-rich Saudis need hardly anything in the way of aid from the U.N. and Baroody has King Feisal's total confidence, he is probably freer than any other diplomat to say exactly what he thinks. Which he does, interminably. A slightly stooped, balding man with an appreciative eye for a well-turned leg, he has a point of order for every occasion, and when colleagues show annoyance at his interruptions, he faces them down with a schoolmaster's glare. During the recent debate on the admission of China, he overheard one diplomat...
...kept high by Republicans. The G.O.P. policy culminated in the disastrous Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930, which set off an international trade war that deepened the world Depression. Only in 1934, when the folly of that approach became painfully evident, did Washington switch to a consistent policy of promoting freer global commerce...
...Nixon-Kennedy election largely a personality contest, and the Kennedy charisma would outweigh Chappaquiddick, although the impact of the bridge would vary from state to state. He would probably lose in Delaware and Maryland. Chappaquiddick would reduce his chances in Pennsylvania to at best an even choice. But the freer lifestyles of New York and New Jersey place less premium on personal conduct. Kennedy would probably carry New Jersey, and he would certainly defeat Nixon in New York?and those two states would give him a majority of the region's electoral votes...
Traditionally supporters of freer trade, many of labor's most liberal leaders have made a startling turnabout and put their powerful clout behind openly protectionist legislation in Congress. The recent converts include the electrical workers, the rubber workers and the machinists. Their feelings were vented at length and with loudness at last week's AFL-CIO convention. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers passed out pamphlets showing a man wearing imported clothes and headlined: HOW TO DRESS FOR A DEPRESSION. Banners strung up at Bal Harbour's Hotel Americana urged union members...
...that she is now adopting. That new outlook is succinctly-and bluntly-expressed by Barbara Walden, whose line of cosmetics for blacks is marketed across the nation: "Before the Afro the black woman was always embarrassed about her kinked-up hair. Wearing the Afro has helped to achieve a freer feeling about herself...