Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week he ticked off his reasons for pride in his years at the Pentagon−keeping the defense strong, making nuclear strategy more flexible, holding the military together after Viet Nam. Then, as usual, there was more. Skepticism has gone too far, he believes. It has forced concentration on things that don't matter, like perceiving conspiracies and finding villains for the sheer sport of it. He worried about family structures weakening, and whether the schools are good enough to produce the people we need now. So much of the national disillusion, he felt, had been planted...
...many of them need no such transposition. The collection was chosen with timelessness in mind; there are duplications from the 1950 25th Anniversary Album, but many of the most dated old cartoons are gone. Into this category fall, unfortunately, most of John Held Jr.'s flapper drawings, Gluyas Williams's genius-inspired portrayals of crises in American Industry--based, all of them, alas, on now obsolete advertising campaigns. (I still believe that the sight of the rotund executive being forcibly restrained from plunging after the bar of Ivory in "The Day a Cake of Soap Sank at Proctor and Gamble...
Stiff Opposition. This legislation, like the proposals that have gone before it, faces stiff industry-union opposition. The American Trucking Associations, the industry's voice, noted that the great majority of trucking companies do $500,000 a year or less in business, and that there already are 15,000 trucking companies. The ATA snarled: "The trucking industry needs more competition like Custer needed more Indians." The International Brotherhood of Teamsters concurred, sensing that Ford's bill would keep rates and profits of big truckers smaller than they otherwise would be, and thus probably limit pay raises for drivers...
...crudely in a 1905 Harvard Graduate's Magazine article that advocated the temporary cessation of games with Yale to preserve Harvard's preeminence. "Thanks to the linking of Yale's name with Harvard's in the sports of the past fifty years, the public, in its haphazard fashion, has gone on supposing that Harvard and Yale were about on a level as institutions of learning," the story's writer laments. Nothing, he adds, could be further from the truth. The article appeared at the nadir of Harvard football, the team having beaten Yale in only one of their previous...
...were very fortunate," was the way Restic began his victory speech. "It could have gone either way. They are a well-coached football team...