Word: intact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Series switched back to Baltimore, the Pirates had to battle more than the singing fastballs of Oriole Pitcher Jim Palmer. No team in Series history has ever lost the first two games and then come back to win the next four. The Orioles were able to keep the record intact, setting up baseball's most classic confrontation, the seventh game of a World Series...
...before one congressional committee or another. He swiftly showed that he knew how to play the game. Once he began a hearing on an interest-rate bill before Wilbur Mills' House Ways and Means Committee by announcing that no compromise was possible, that the measure had to go through intact. At the hearing's end, Mills held out a compromise?and Connally snapped it up. Complimented recently on a good performance before a congressional committee, he hawed: "Well, I just got to tell the truth. I'm not devious enough to lie." A White House aide describes Connally's style...
...that salvation, or a scrap of it, is to be found only in them. In the world of politics we see no salvation, we are not to be diddled, but we prefer the less bad to the more bad, and so become patriots, while keeping our brains and hearts intact...
...have a stronger bargaining position during his trip. This also would explain Kissinger's upcoming trip: during the UN debate, Kissinger can obtain some deal. One formula widely speculated upon would return Taiwan to Peking upon Chaing's death. Until that time, Chaing would remain free to keep intact the myth of his sovereignty over all China or he could perhaps acknowledge Peking sovereignty and accept the post of governor of the island. In return, so goes the theory, Peking will not demand that America officially renounce its mutual defence pact with Chaing. For this Peking would secretly agree...
...dissecting the stories of Beatrix Potter with words, choreographer Frederick Ashton and the Royal Ballet delve into them using the more eloquent medium of the dance. Five of Beatrix Potter's better known tales are recreated through mime and ballet, with the spirit and watercolor beauty of her books intact...