Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Franklin Roosevelt noticed a radio reporter named Robert Trout holding a microphone that bore unfamiliar initials. F.D.R. stopped and asked: "CBS? What's that?" Some 40 years later, President Richard Nixon believed that CBS and other news organizations were trying to drive him out of office. Clearly, a lot happened in between. What, precisely, forms the subject of The Powers That Be, a narrative that is long enough to be two books and in fact is: a serious history of recent changes in U.S. news reporting and a gossipy, mostly engrossing chronicle of office politics and high-level power...
...coverage of ordinary folk, and even to buy TV sets and newspaper subscriptions for poor people. That scheme is so wildly impractical, so ripe for abuse that it would probably get the sociologist laughed out of every writers' saloon in the nation. A pity. Gans has done a lot of thinking about an important group of professionals who, in his view, are too harassed by deadlines and other burdens of the trade to think as much as they might like...
...opening. And I feel a genuine message which has come from life, and not from the scriptures only--it is from experience. There is a lot of misunderstanding and falsehood in the guru business. A lot of sickening things are happening. In that confused atmosphere, we need some fresh things. The West has gone to an extreme in technology and science, and the young people are a little bit bored of this and tired of the wars and killing. And they started thinking: what is the result of our achievement? So they now go to the other extreme: Indian philosophy...
...basically a mild, self-limiting disease," Wacker said. "I imagine a lot of people have a touch of it and don't know it," he added...
Women's sports must struggle to gain attention just as a new sport does, Doria said. "The best thing you can do as women athletes is make a lot of noise--keep bothering us and you'll get more coverage," he added...