Word: m
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...engaged in nothing more than "15 or 20 minutes of social amenities." Later, when this account was branded a lie, Young did some semantic acrobatics. "I did not lie, I didn't tell all of the truth. I prefaced my remark [to the State Department]: 'I'm going to give you an official version,' and I gave an official version which...
...when corn was selling for $3 a bushel. Now this here new one," he said, indicating a bright green and yellow John Deere, "costs $30,000, and I bought that on $2 corn. That's what I mean by the squeeze." Leach was duly impressed. "I'm glad to get some of these things off my chest," Glenney said...
...burst into the world of letters with boundless energy, a hungry heart and a typewriter stuffed with lusty words. He churned out blockbusters like The Carpetbaggers, The Adventurers and The Inheritors, books crammed with characters who caress and curse, curse and caress their way through life. "I'm a people writer," he has explained. And right he is: though critics may jeer his work is "tripe" and "crud," the people have made him a millionaire many times over. A mansion in Beverly Hills! A villa in Cannes! And an empire of readers throughout the world! Some time this month...
...just troubled, they play a role that sometimes seems to be a cross between Marcus Welby and Ann Landers. Insisting that "medicine is concerned with disease, nursing with health," they preach the gospel of preventive medicine-or "health promotion," as they call it. Says M. Lucille Kinlein, who runs a thriving practice in Hyattsville, Md.: "We give people an opportunity to think in a different concept, namely to think wellness...
...commendable as the feminists' objectives may seem, critics worry about their methods, explaining that they could undermine free speech, encourage the suppression of ideas and possibly lead to book burnings. Says Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz: "Women who would have the government ban sexist material are the new McCarthyites. It's the same old censorship in radical garb." But feminists, who plan to take their fight to state legislatures, insist that the issue is violence against women, not free speech. Says Brownmiller: "It's a myth that obscenity and pornography are protected by the First Amendment...