Word: frontally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Penn's offense was heavily laden with plays that employed a more frontal attack than Radcliffe was prepared for. The result was that goalie Stephanie Lear, who turned a fine performance, often had to fend off screened shots...
...Communists probably will avoid opening up a full-scale frontal offensive-in part to avoid provoking the U.S. Congress into increasing military aid to South Viet Nam. What they are apparently trying to do, instead, is encourage the urban-centered non-Communist opposition in South Viet Nam to force the resignation of President Nguyen Van Thieu. Evidently the North Vietnamese and the Provisional Revolutionary Government (P.R.G.) believe that with Thieu out of power, they could eventually dominate a coalition government...
...Frontal Shots. The outburst of porn has made strange bedfellows of Roman Catholic bishops, the Communist Party, the actors union and even some impresarios, all of whom are pondering the age-old question of how to have liberty without license. "Debauchery is a pig's breakfast," one anguished citizen wrote the Lisbon weekly Expresso. There have even been charges that the CIA is sponsoring the new pornography to sap the revolution of its energies. Recently, Premier Vasco Gonçalves on nationwide television admonished his people to fight "pseudo-leftists and anarchists instead of going to see the pornography...
...sheer coincidence, Gonçalves appeared on the air an hour after a TV broadcast of highlights from Autos Sacramentais that included shots of full frontal nudity. Since TV is government controlled, that in itself was a fairly strong indication that the wave of pornography is not about to subside in the near future. One reason is that the military junta-and the leftist unions, which heavily restrict the theoretically unfettered press by refusing to publish anything not to their liking-can use the sex explosion as evidence that censorship does not exist. Another is that the people obviously like...
...Ford's road show is more evidence that the new President is fighting a good campaign against self-isolation. No matter what they say now about the economy, oil and the Nixon pardon being Ford's main problems, his biggest battle is with himself. The kind of frontal criticism Ford is getting usually encourages a President to seek protection. Behind him the Oval Office enlarges the impulse, offering opulent seclusion as the angry world goes...