Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never been one that sat around or danced, except a dance or two. He comes down, speaks to everybody, eats dinner, then says goodnight. By 9:30 he was upstairs working." Nor will liquor be served in the Carter White House. "I've been doing a lot of reading about the White House," she says, a shade defensively. "It was a tradition to serve only wine until recently." She notes that she served only wine in the Governor's mansion, "and it saved me money-I didn't have to have bartenders...
...thought long and hard for her own key to the man. "I think he's very unusual. He's complex. He has a lot of different interests, a lot of different sides." She settled on two aspects that make her husband who he is: his roots in Plains and his constant hard work. The decision to leave the Navy and return to Plains gave them a life of total sharing-they worked together to build their business, they made a team venture of his campaigns...
...education, and maybe big religion. If we should ever lose the individual's right to do more for himself or more for his family, I think one of the great character builders of this country will be down the drain. And once that goes down the drain, a lot of the character in our form of government likewise will be under constant jeopardy. We didn't get to be a great country by having the Government do all of that or labor do all of that or industry do all of that. We became great because...
...live," complains Gene Jadwin, 37, owner of the Silver Bay Motel. "This anxiety is really hard on your family life." Marital tensions have risen as the town's predicament has worsened; there were five divorces in 1971 and 30 in 1975. "We're seeing a lot of stress-related symptoms," says Dr. Donald Haase, 53, one of the town's three physicians. "We're getting more cases of acute and chronic depression, and more gastrointestinal problems too." Lutheran Minister David Kupka, 36, likens the town's behavior to that of a family with a terminally...
Student power, in effect, rules Soweto today. Says David Thebehali, 37, who as chairman of the Urban Bantu Council (U.B.C.) serves as Soweto's unofficial mayor: "The parents were shocked at first by how the kids behaved during the riots. However, a lot of us soon realized that the students were only fighting the battles we should have fought years ago but didn't have the courage to fight. Now the parents solidly support the students, while they don't always agree with the tactics...