Word: lived
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...welcome to Shoreham." And then he arrested her, still smiles all around. The scene was repeated, with variations, hundreds of times that afternoon. Some of the protesters were grim, earnest in their belief that stopping Shoreham was a realistic possibility: "We can't let it open," said one, "I live near here." A protester explained to the officer who arrested her, "You don't understand that we're doing this for you, it's your kids that we're trying to protest." others said the protest was very nice and all that, but doubted it would have a great effect...
...tactic was simply to prevent Congress from voting the funds that would allow the U.S. to live up to its obligations under the treaty. The Administration estimates that these requirements will cost the U.S. some $900 million over a 20-year period. Only about $85 million of this would go to Panama; the rest would be used to compensate American workers forced to leave the zone and, most important, to move U.S. defense facilities out of the area. Calling the treaties a giveaway, House conservatives argued that Panama should pay all the costs...
...regional countries. But we are in a very volatile situation. The opposition has chosen this particular period to stir up a government crisis, which will hamper our opportunity to restore our economy with foreign aid. We risk seeing this year wasted in the economic and social sense. We must live with instability for some time, but instability may be the price we have to pay for democracy...
Biography has always been a demanding discipline. "It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one," said Strachey. A good biographer should combine the skills of the novelist and the detective, and add to them the patience and compassion of the priest. Few people want their shortcomings exposed (biography has added a new terror to death, complained one 18th century writer), and they, or their heirs, often go to considerable trouble to hide them. Somerset Maugham asked his friends to destroy his letters; both Willa Gather and Ernest Hemingway inveighed against posthumous publication of theirs...
...first film, They Live by Night, won critical plaudits for its stark depiction of teen-age alienation, loneliness and savage cruelty-themes he later developed in the psychological western Johnny Guitar and the '50s cult film starring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause. Ray's fortunes faded in Hollywood in the 1960s, not to be revived by blockbuster fiascos he made abroad...