Word: impetuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sears and Logue, who in political and ideological complexion are no different from White, ran third and fourth yesterday, and the votes and money which they attracted are sure to go now to White. And Mrs. Hicks' running first is an added impetus for supporters of Logue and Sears to rally behind White, since it will doubtless provoke an it-can-happen-here reaction. White has a deep reservoir of votes in the 45 per cent of the electorate who stayed away from the polls yesterday...
Vassar Vulgarity. Dr. Hartogs had to suffer another traumatic experience before he could explain all about the mechanic, the wheel and the word. The impetus was the 1959 federal court decision that D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover was not obscene. Later that week, at a "fairly fashionable party" on Long Island (a place he should obviously avoid), Dr. Hartogs heard that word again-not from a greasy mechanic, but from the lips of a "splendidly groomed and passably pretty specimen of suburban femininity," who uttered "a string of barracks words paraded with a crisp Vassar...
...nation's priorities and interests. However difficult that may be, no attempt to alleviate the social despair and economic disparities of U.S. cities can succeed until all Americans are willing to search their hearts, consciences and pocketbooks. The Urban Coalition may well have given that effort its initial impetus...
Nevertheless, many Congressmen doubted that the economy had built up sufficient impetus to resist the recessional impact of higher taxes. A more prudent course, they reasoned, would be to reduce domestic spending-though few Congressmen could agree on the programs to be cut. Some citizens felt that the President's experts were practicing arithmetical abracadabra to justify the surcharge. "Now you see it, now you don't," siehed Wisconsin's John Byrnes after Schultze projected a $2 billion saving on the sale of "participation certificates," which, committee members thought, amounted to an elaborate form of federal borrowing...
...first time, Congress is investigating the U.S. newspaper industry in depth. The impetus is a pending bill that would exempt consolidating newspapers from antitrust laws if one of the papers is "failing" financially. Already under way for two weeks, hearings by Senator Philip Hart's Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee promise to be controversial-and prolonged. They may well outlast this session of Congress, as witnesses deliver not only their opinions of the bill but of the industry's troubles in general...