Word: lusting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time in nearly a decade, the U.S. witnessed the sudden rush of blood lust that comes with an impending execution. Dozens of men telephoned the Utah state prison warden, Samuel Smith, offering to join (for a fee of $175) the firing squad that would extinguish the life of Murderer Gary Mark Gilmore, 35. Reporters shouted objections when Warden Smith announced at a press conference that state law did not permit journalists to witness the execution, scheduled at 8 a.m., Nov. 15. But the most macabre aspect of the event was that it was Gilmore, insisting he wanted...
...withdrew into the various styles of the "personal growth" movement. Reich's version is a kind of Peter Pantheism in which he offers his own autobiography as a guide to a never-never land. Natural beauty and loving friends heal the troubled soul there, and such things as lust, jealousy, guilt and evil hardly seem to exist...
Several matters-relatively trivial but taken as clues to his character-became major news events and cost him support. Perhaps most damaging were his comments to Playboy about lust and his description of Lyndon Johnson as a liar and cheater, for which he publicly apologized to Lady Bird Johnson...
...reasons ranging from age to political weariness to lust for higher office, a record number of incumbent Congressmen?37 Democrats and 17 Republicans?did not even run for reelection. Perhaps the best-known member to retire was House Speaker Carl Albert, 68, the only nationally known native of Bug Tussle, Okla. The seat he held for 15 terms (but not, of course, his role as Speaker) will be more or less filled by State Senator Wes Watkins, 37, of Ada, Okla., who had a harder job defeating five other Democrats in the primary than he did in whomping Republican Challenger...
Compare this with the sensitively understated Gilman as prim Miss Prism, Cecily's spinster governess. Severe in a herringbone suit, her frizzy yellow hair drawn back tightly in a bun, Gilman stands in her characteristic pose, hands clasped in front of her, and expresses dismay, skepticism and repressed lust with utter conviction...