Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fallows does not believe he has experienced any "violent" change in his world outlook since leaving Harvard. He contrasts himself to classmates who swung sharply to cynicism and professional school after their search to "save the world and root out evil" was frustrated. Nor has he gone the route of some of his classmates who, because "there was such a moral sickness in those days...ended up doing a lot less respectable things than they would have if they had gone to other places...
...players left the field, the orange-leaved maple trees swayed in the wind behind them. In a few weeks, the trees will be barren, the leaves gone. But Saturday was the glory day for the Princeton booters, and the trees wore their colors boldly to mark the occasion...
...KOVIC, age 19, lies paralyzed in a Veteran's Administration hospital. He can feel nothing below his chest. He will never again walk nor make love to a woman: his condition is permanent and without hope. A "Yankee Doodle boy born on the Fourth of July," he had gone to Vietnam in defense of the American dream and to fight the scourge of communism. He has returned not as the conquering hero, but as a cripple, his spinal cord shattered by a volley of rifle fire. The young president's words linger in his mind, the words of the president...
...press conference, he returned to the subject of Eastern Europe: "Now we concede for the time being that the Soviet Union has that military power there, but we subscribe to the hopes and aspirations of the courageous Polish people and their relations in the U.S." Had he gone far enough to win back the ethnic voters? On the surface, it appeared that he had. Campaigning in the East last week, he ran into no heckling in ethnic neighborhoods. In Yonkers, N.Y., he was cheered by crowds waving SLOVAK AMERICANS FOR FORD signs. In Union, N.J., he was greeted with signs...
...first year, we had the ball bounce our way a lot," Ford added. "But this year it's gone the other way. We've had some breaks, but we haven't capitalized on them." Right, And more people are employed now than ever before, and we are at peace, and the economy is recovering...