Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young people already in rural America are staying put. "Traditionally," says Morrison, "many of them would have gone on a Greyhound bus, headed for the city and never come back." He thinks fewer now dream of "making it in the big city...
...Pike finally agreed to a compromise under which the White House told the committee what was in the documents without actually handing them over. The White House's capitulation rescued Kissinger from a potentially nasty confrontation on Capitol Hill. If the Secretary's congressional skirmish had gone the other way, the repercussions would have been profound. Had he actually been cited for contempt, Kissinger might well have resigned, and détente, battered and bruised already, would have been seriously wounded...
...problem has intensified ever since 1961, when the Russian Orthodox Church joined the council. There was a tacit agreement to spare the delegates from Moscow any embarrassment, and Soviet sins have gone unnoticed. One Nairobi delegate, Scottish Episcopal Priest Richard Holloway, has called the attitude a "conspiracy of silence...
...that keep track of the aircraft also search for planes within two minutes' flying time of a hazardous situation. When they find one, they flash a warning to the air-traffic controller, who can then give one or both planes directions to avoid an accident. C.A. has already gone into operation at the Denver, Fort Worth, Kansas City and Memphis air-route traffic control centers. FAA officials are now planning to speed up the installation schedule at other control centers...
...midst of the hearings, Garrity had gone to the school himself-his first trip inside the building. He found that only 271 of the 771 whites assigned to Southie, and just 106 of the 446 blacks, were actually attending classes. He later went back to the school "because I could not really believe what I saw on the first visit...