Word: great
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late, however, Washington has come to life with a special Nixonian flavor. Spiro Agnew has become a walking oratorical event, exhaling sulphurous prose on behalf of the Great Silent Majority. Attorney General John Mitchell's dour podsnappery as Southern strategist and antidissenter cheers the forces of law and order and dismays liberals. Mitchell himself has remained as invisible as before. But his wife Martha has emerged as one of the dominant figures on the Washington scene, and her tart tongue has enlivened a lot of cocktail parties (see box, page...
...business of the "kings"-in reality the President of France, the Chancellor of West Germany and the Premiers of Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-is to determine how badly they want this economic union to endure and what they should do to revive its impetus. There was a great air of uncertainty over the direction the talks would take. As he processed credentials for the 500 newsmen attracted by the spectacle, one Dutch official wryly inquired last week: "Is it to be a burial or a revival...
...dated but still pertinent case in point is Lillian Hellman, who signed a statement in the Daily Worker supporting the 1938 Great Purge trials in Moscow. The trials brought about the execution of Russia's greatest writers, together with millions of other innocent Soviet people...
...reputation as a Mao enthusiast, Li differed with the chairman on several occasions. One was in 1958 over the ill-conceived Great Leap Forward. Another was in 1962, when Mao decided to send party cadres to work among the peasants. "Damn it," he reportedly complained, "we have not even completed our revolution in Peking. How can we make progress if we weaken our organization by sending cadres down to labor...
...today's folk heroes. "Look at Joe Namath," said the Olympic champion turned Ice Follies star. "He's a mess." Last week Peggy made a guest appearance on Namath's syndicated TV show-and melted like an icicle in April. "Gee, I think he's great," Peggy gushed afterward. "He seems to have so much fun." Joe, by all appearances, was equally impressed. "Say, Peggy," he ventured, with a confident grin beneath his latest Fu Manchu, "by the way, what are you doing tonight...