Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon hardly ever varies his stock "law and order" speech. If anything, his tone tends to be more conservative week by week. Last week drugs became the "modern curse of American youth, just like the plagues and epidemics of former years." The Supreme Court was attacked for weakening the hand of "the peace forces" in fighting crime. Washington was depicted as the "crime capital of the world." To the cheering audiences, it scarcely mattered that the facts were sometimes awry. For instance, though Washington does indeed have a serious crime problem, the capital ranks twelfth on a per capita basis...
...such a promotional coup. The idea would have seemed too stagy or cloyingly obvious: the candidate's perky, pretty 20-year-old daughter Julie becoming engaged to the 20-year-old grandson of Dwight Eisenhower on the very eve of the presidential primary race. They would then campaign hand-in-hand toward November victory and a White House wedding...
...credence to their argument. Moscow seems to be using the German menace to scare its allies back into the fold. The device may be effective, but it clearly seeks unity at the cost of greater East-West tension. Another factor that confirms Russian determination to keep its satellites in hand is the obvious unease of many of the East European states. Rumania and Yugoslavia have both been jittery and even Albania, long unfriendly to Yugoslavia, established contacts with Belgrade as Bulgarian troops massed on the Yugoslav border and as the chief of staff of the Warsaw Pact forces paid...
...quick drive through the Black Belt soon reveals what the answer is. Thousands of families have missed out; thousands of black people are getting by on less than what the country has decided it takes for people to stay alive. A first-hand look at their lives makes the abstractions of "poverty line" and "survival level" painfully concrete...
...three years on the varsity, Cleary captured almost every scoring record at Harvard and several national honors as well. In his junior year he led his team to a 17-3-1 record, becoming the highest scorer in NCAA history on the way. He had a hand in two out of every three goals that season, with 42 goals and 47 assists...