Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President.") Having done his duty, and drawn boos as well as heavy applause, Humphrey then moved to cut the umbilical. It was now "the end of an era?the beginning of a new day," he said. To ensure that nobody missed the point, he used the "new day" phrase half a dozen more times, and it would be no surprise if that became the slogan of his campaign. In a Humphrey Administration?if there is one?he told reporters, "I may turn to 'new dawn.' The dawn comes slowly, but it illuminates...
...heavily guarded and isolated, like a prison camp or a nuclear installation. If the 10,000 young protesters were bent on raising a ruckus outside the hall, McCarthy's forces were determined to raise one within. "There is no floor strategy," said McCarthy's aide, Jerry Eller, only half in jest, on the eve of the convention. "Just achieve panic, and then...
...excessive hairiness or pimples [caused by an excess of androgenic hormones], or is excessively fat or is approaching the change of life, her doctor is morally justified in prescribing any treatment he likes. And that includes the pill." Dr. Cross's list is comprehensive enough to qualify about half the women in the world...
...world of the haves and the havenots, the real losers may be the half-haves. They are the ones who come close enough to the rainbow to count the stripes, the ones who are suckered into stretching out their arms toward the pot of gold they will never touch...
...Love Yourself" Less fascinating than these witty, horrific, social criticisms-bleak Utopias all-but often more convincing and moving, are Vonnegut's stories on contemporary themes. They concern, among others, a half-Negro war orphan searching for his father, and a dedicated music teacher trying to soften the heart of a hardened juvenile delinquent. These tales forcibly demonstrate humanity at its best-people trying to cope with the painful present instead of escaping into an anesthetized future...