Word: looks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ulster Secretary in the last Labor government, said he believed Mountbatten's death signaled a frightening new dimension in terrorism, that is, competition among the assassins. "After the Irish National Liberation Army killed M.P. Airey Neave [last March]," said Mason, "the Provos felt they had been made to look incompetent. Apart from the Provos' own cause, they have now been whipped into a new frenzied aim of neutralizing the success of the breakaway militant faction, the I.N.L.A...
...succeed by other means where Einstein failed. That could eventually mean a union of all four of nature's basic forces -gravitation, electromagnetism and the nuclear strong and weak forces. Predicted Israeli Theorist Haim Harari of the Weizmann Institute of Science: "Five years from now when we look back, we will all agree that the gluon was discovered in the summer...
...only $3 for their trip, while the presidential excursion cost several thousand. The pair also launched a new political organization called Women U.S.A. and urged their sisters across the land to ship their household bills, once paid, to Congress as a protest. Somehow, however, the ladies of the lake look becalmed...
...complicate the unbelievable, she and Starbuck had been Communists in their youth. His zeal has withered with age, but not hers. "After I die," she tells Starbuck, "you look in my left shoe . . . You will find my will in there. I leave the RAMJAC Corporation to its rightful owners, the American people." Starbuck is dazzled by the purity of her motive but convinced that her act will make not one whit of difference to the way people live: "The economy is a thoughtless weather system - and nothing more. Some joke on the people, to give them such a thing...
...politicians then took a studiedly stern look at Chrysler's proposal. After all, barging into the free market system on behalf of a declining concern violated every tenet of what is supposed to be America's survival-of-the-fittest economy. And the politicians seemed to take a hard line on Chrysler, casting aspersions on Chrysler's tax code shenanigans, and substituting them with their own plan. Treasury Secretary G. William Miller said that the government might aid Chrysler with a guaranteed loan of $750 million, but only after the corporation made internal sacrifices and set out a sound plan...