Word: hearded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...courtesy while Mondale was presiding over the Senate (they later traded apologies). Having spent nearly two decades in that chamber, Byrd sometimes seems more interested in the rules and folkways of the Senate than in the issues it decides. "He makes the trains run on time," goes an oft-heard appraisal of his reign, "but the cars are all empty...
Only the advocates of relinquishing U.S. ownership and operation of the canal to Panama were heard last week. The committee will turn to opponents this week as the hearings continue. At stake are two treaties: one would give the canal to Panama by the end of the century; the other would enable the U.S. to guarantee the canal's neutrality-keeping it open to all the world's shipping-even after the year 2000. Both agreements require approval by the Senate...
...angry when he saw children starving, old men and women without adequate medical care, people who had to work all their lives at back-breaking, mind-numbing jobs they hated because they had been denied the chance to make decent lives for themselves. He grew angry when he heard of Vietnamese peasants blinded, maimed and killed by Americans, not because they were Vietnamese or American, but because they were people. He would write, in his last letter home to his own children...
...from the Midwest and all I've heard people talk about the past few days is "tailgating" before the home football games. Now I thought I knew my football, but what does this "tailgating" mean? Vexed Vocab...
...UMass was rated third in New England before it fell to Harvard and, you know, I haven't heard much from Andrew Young lately...