Word: heartening
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...financial affairs, looking for evidence to buttress old speculation that Agnew was implicated in conflict-of-interest situations while a Baltimore county official. Nothing new or sensational was turned up by week's end, but the fact that there was any inquiry at all could only hearten the Democrats...
...Pennsylvania Democrat Joseph Clark's Senate poverty subcommittee, Kennedy was only echoing objections that have been raised frequently in recent years. Even so, as New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, another member of Clark's subcommittee, pointed out, such scattershot attacks are bound to hearten those who want to gut the whole antipoverty program...
...Mission Control. Kraft, who usually passes on instructions only through the capsule communicator, went on the air himself. "What is your pressure reading now?" he asked. One hundred and twenty to 125 Ibs., came the answer. "It looks like the rate of decrease is decreasing," observed Kraft, hoping to hearten the crew. He told them that airplanes were on their way to the Pacific recovery area, adding, "We hope we don't have to use them, but it will be a good exercise for them, and they'll be there if you need them." While they talked, though...
Expressed in these terms, the boycott may achieve its goals by inducing a realignment within the white electorate; a boycott would weaken the fierce proponents of apartheid, hearten the liberal opposition, and convince the apolitical that the whites in South Africa will lose more by remaining attached to apartheid than by gradually sharing power...
...humorous view of life; just as the characters in other common strips lobby, with terrible earnestness, for their own interests. You know, Buz Sawyer for the Navy, Steve Canyon for the Air Force, Little Orphan Annie for the Jack Acids and Goldwatery cranks. With the Black Book to hearten it, the Pogo lobby will continue to support...