Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compromise, which is essential to democracy, seems to have gone out of style in recent years of angry all-or-nothing politics. Especially when the Congress is Democratic and the President is Republican, the result is often no legislation, and many issues are left to fade or fester. In an encouraging departure from that pattern, the Ford Administration and a mixed bag of Senators have reached agreement on one of the most sensitive issues of all: wiretapping U.S. citizens for national security purposes...
...bearing such a legendary name really join the violent social revolutionaries of the S.L.A.? Could she have been so alienated from society and her parents-"pigs," she called them-that in two months she could change, by some strange metamorphosis, into the revolutionary named Tania? And could she have gone along on the bank raid of her own free will, carrying a sawed-off carbine like a latter-day gun moll...
S.L.A. had forced Patty to rob the bank when, just one month later, she had gone to such lengths "to free the very people that she claims forced her to rob the bank. Can you believe that...
Patty had been coerced into joining the S.L.A. and coerced into taking part in the robbery. Every member of the jury, he said, would have participated in the raid, if so ordered by the S.L.A. What is more, said Bailey, the jurors might have gone along even if they had not been intimidated by being held in closets for 57 days, as Patty was. Putting the matter as bluntly as he could, Bailey said that the alternatives faced by Patty were easy "for the most simple-minded person to understand: 'Do what I say or I'll blow...
...other sophomores, George Aiken and Dave Begohossian, are making potent bids for oars on the other side of the boat. John Niles, a senior who had not rowed since the fall of his freshman year, has in the words of one teammate, "gone wild." Two 1975 J.V.s, Bill Kerins and Dave Bixby, are also top competitors for port positions...