Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics. 1. Get elected. 2. Get reelected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.−The late Senator Everett Dirksen...
...attack on RH-827 was yet another indication of the guerrillas' growing strength and further proof that Nkomo seems determined to raise as much havoc as he can before the spring election. Late in January, Rhodesia's white minority overwhelmingly approved a referendum committing them to join 2.8 million black voters at the polls on April 20 to elect a majority-rule government that Smith hopes will gain international recognition as legitimate...
...Late last December, Robert Earl ("Bubba") May Jr., 14, was arrested with three companions for using a shotgun to rob two fireworks stands near the sleepy farm town of Brookhaven, Miss., and stealing a wallet. Two nights later Bubba and two of his accomplices robbed a grocery and beat up a saleswoman. Indicted on four counts of armed robbery, he was convicted only a week later. His sentence: 48 years in prison without chance of parole, the product of a plea bargain by his court-appointed attorney...
...parenting to women. This lets mothers dominate their children's emotional lives, and, as Chodorow explains, ensures the cycle's repetition: in what she calls the psychological "reproduction" of mothering, the daughter will try to solve her difficulties with Mother by having a child of her own. Late in life, there may even be a switch of roles, with Mama herself demanding mothering. For example, says Friday, Mother will ask: "How is it that you can't come see me on weekends when all I've ever done is be your mother...
That advice may be too late for some women, including Friday. She and her husband have decided not to have children. She explains: "I still have these anxieties and doubts, and I don't want to pass them on to another generation...