Word: line
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME seems convinced that Carter has put his presidency on the line with regard to his Middle East peace efforts. Bull-feathers! Even the majority of his critics would acknowledge that whatever takes place between Egypt and Israel, Carter's effort to conclude a peace was courageous and worthwhile. This is one game in which winning isn't necessarily everything; Americans still respect good causes, lost or otherwise...
...will to use it); Gloria Carter Spann (Jimmy's nearest sister, wife to a Plains farmer and the most retiring and impressive of the circle); Miss Allie Smith (Rosalynn's serene but clearly strong mother); and Jimmy and Rosalynn themselves (attentive as radar stations on the DEW line and pleasanter...
...problem, dyslexia, forced young Nelson out of the library into more active pursuits and made him a confirmed extravert. He struggled through school in Manhattan, then managed to make Phi Beta Kappa at Dartmouth in 1930. After graduation he married Mary Todhunter Clark, a member of a Philadelphia Main Line family that summered near the Rockefeller home on the coast of Maine. The couple's world tour had the trappings of a state visit as sheiks, princes, poets and artists turned out to greet them. Nelson and Mary eventually had five children...
...billion worth of imports and exports are piling up at British ports because of the union blockades. With no power to curtail the flying pickets, Callaghan has gone so far as to en courage Britons to defy them. "Everyone in this country is entitled to cross a picket line if he disagrees with the arguments put to him," said the Prime Minister last week. "I would not hesitate myself to cross a picket line if I believed it right...
...Bard's poetry. In an odd way, this approach actually improves the play's lengthy final scene. With too many loose ends to wrap up neatly, Shakespeare threw up his hands in disgust here and let the Duke run wild, marrying couples and ending subplots in one-line salvos--and he never wrote comedy again. But he left directors with an awesome problem of how to present the scene believably. They have offered it as a parody of incompetent plotting, or a piece of elaborate literary criticism; but Cain gets away with doing it straight because his production never raises...