Word: hards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Needless to say, we are very pleased," Mitchell said. "But we think it's kind of hard on the taxpayers to pay the city solicitor to go after us in a case that very clearly was just harassment," she added
...heads and evaluating the quality thereof. Strout is a remarkably acute judge of character. On Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R.-Wisc.), in early 1950 before most knew him well and before McCarthyism was a word: "It would seem easy to pin down the preposterous utterances, but no; McCarthy is as hard to catch as a mist--a mist that carries lethal contagion." On Vice President Richard Nixon: "In politics this quiet young man is a killer....He is out for the kill and the scalp at any cost." On 1968 presidential candidate George Wallace: "the hillbilly Hitler." On Rep. Gerald Ford...
...cabdriver in Peking who told me his son had worked very hard but failed the test the first year," she continues. "The driver told me, 'Now he spends every day in the library studying. I don't have much culture and I can't help him. I hope he passes...
...always been wary of hard drugs. They destroyed the mind, killed people... The swinging sixties had been a time when all that mattered was instant pleasure regardless of dire warnings and danger; now, it seemed, we were to pay for our hedonism...
...arouse? In the past I would have had to answer "not much" to these questions. I know Veterans Day commemorates the men who fought in wars for the U.S. It recalls those people who gave their lives in active support of the ideals of their country. Yet it is hard to get excited about a holiday that pays tribute to the achievements and struggles of people in circumstances so far removed from our everyday lives...