Word: linked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report is particularly right to link social unrest to the housing crisis-if it disappeared, the Communist Party would disappear with it, or very nearly. It is true too that French youths are indifferent to politics, but could they be more indifferent than the average young comics-and baseball-imbibing American? What does America offer its youth, apart from material comfort . . . Can we have a report on American youth, written by a Frenchman...
Cash & Carry. To postpone the Capehart vote, Johnson squeezed in two amendments dear to the Connecticut constituents of Republican Prescott Bush. Result: not only more time, but Bush's vote in the showdown. By accepting Republican Ralph Flanders' proposal to link the rate of housing starts to fluctuations in general business activity, Johnson won Flanders' vote. Then he cashed in lOUs with two other G.O.P. Senators, getting them to offset two of Johnson's absent Democrats by not voting themselves...
...Chief Justice Warren wrote that the Fifth Amendment should be "accorded liberal construction in favor of the right it was intended to secure..." Warren upheld Emspak's refusal to testify about certain associates, all previously charged with Communist affiliations, on the grounds that his answers might "have furnished a link in the chain of evidence needed to prosecute him for a Federal crime." Similar ruling were made in the cases of Thomas Quinn, another UEW official, and Phillip Bart, general manager of the Daily Worker...
...trees too have long been a breeding place for all manner of vermin, and I suggest that they be removed at an early date. Shade could still be provided by suspending plastic louvers from steel pylons, and a link with tradition maintained by scattering among them a few clay pigeons and stuffed squirrels. Gerald Robinson...
...Wolfe's work is profoundly influenced by his youth in Asheville. Home represented the most important link to a childhood in which he had most often transcended the limitations of his being. In his concept of home, Wolfe's mother and father have a dominant role. His mother, despite her avarice, seemed to signify to Wolfe the durability and fertility of the earth itself, while his father--the W. O. Gant of Look Homeward, Angel, is the "Far Wanderer," the forever unsatisfied, Odysseus-like figure. Between these two forces, Wolfe saw himself poised, and his continual efforts to formularize these...