Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much opposition in this nation to policies designed to gain equality in our society for minorities and for women," Stokes said. "The opposition is largely political. It takes the form of creating in the body politic the sense and belief that minority groups have gained too much and have gone too far in their quest for equality." Stokes added...
...take-home pay the year before), Kuechenmeister finds the ordeal not only bearable but downright pleasant. "It's a relief to be retired," he admits in almost surprised tones. "I'm satisfied. I'm happier not working than I was working. The tensions are gone. If I want to stay up to midnight to watch a football game, I don't have to worry about getting up the next morning...
...Avis name to start a worldwide send-flowers-by-wire network. Competing national brewers have been in a ferment over such new sound-alike low-calorie beers as Light and Lite. Even nicknames can create legal hassles. The owners of the Paris-based International Herald Tribune have just gone to court to stop alleged trademark infringement by a proposed new Manhattan daily called the Trib...
...plane crash. "God is a brute and traitor, abandoning us to time," writes Dillard. She despairs of earthly happiness: "You can get caught holding one end of a love, when your father drops, and your mother; when a land is lost, or a time, and your friend blotted out, gone . . ." But in the end, she witnesses a baptism that heralds her own reawakening of faith. One Christian sect, she reads, posits a substance known as "Holy the Firm," a substance buried deep within planets that "is in touch with the Absolute, at base." She writes with irreverent abandon: "Yank...
...entry for September 28 begins, "A day of anguish. At times it seemed as if it would be our last." But beginning in October, the tone of the story suggests the calm before the final storm. Che confines himself to military reports, but the agitation evident before is gone. The diary has become an exercise necessary for sanity, as his health deteriorates steadily. For most of the Bolivian campaign Che had to ride a horse or mule rather than walk; these beasts of burden were continually sacrificed when there was no food...