Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among newspapers, some quoted Carter without a blush, others censored him and still others, like the Atlanta Constitution and the Dallas Times-Herald, blue-penciled "screws" but ran "shacks up." Perhaps the most tortured evasion of Carter's basic English was contrived by the New York Times. The paper was offered the story at the same time as NBC, but editors held it because, as one said, "People might accuse us of trying to manipulate the campaign." When the story finally did run, the paper found all the "screws" unfit to print, reporting only that Carter had "used...
...word declaration of independence for the 4.4 million Croatians, who are a fifth of Yugoslavia's population. The terrorists demanded that these be published next day in five major newspapers (the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the International Herald Tribune). If this was done, said the conspirators, the hostages would be released. If it was not, another hidden bomb would be detonated in a "highly busy location...
...taken more than kimonos to make Mitsukoshi Japan's largest department store-and certainly one of the busiest single stores in the world. Sales last year reached $492 million (v. about $160 million for Macy's Herald Square store in Manhattan), equal to a third of the 14-store Mitsukoshi chain's revenues of $ 1.4 billion. Mitsukoshi outstrips even New York's Bloomingdale's (TIME cover, Dec. 1) and Paris' Printemps for eclecticism-a lure that on a typical weekend will draw a quarter of a million people through the main store...
...article in the Rodesia Herald proclaimed that "The Front Line Is In The Back Garden." The reporter noted that white social life has changed drastically. Dinner parties have been replaced by Sunday lunches, whereas the wives no longer gather at tea parties but attend Red Cross demonstrations and shooting practice instead...
...Stanford notes that a reporter from The Miami Herald later found that the unnamed staffer who authored the letter was none other than Powell himself...