Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other candidates, Nixon is permitted a direct phone to ten delegations. He also has 125 cars at his command, as well as several speedboats-"Nixon's Navy" -that will dock in Indian Creek across from the hall to whisk VIPs to their hotels without fighting traffic on main-stem Collins Avenue...
...pollsters' main problem-which led in part to last week's statement-is that politicians and the press are constantly exaggerating the importance of the polls. Many analysts, including pollsters, are beginning to wonder whether "racehorse" surveys taken in the heated confusion of a presidential campaign are worthwhile, since the temperature of the electorate can vary by half a dozen points from one week to the next...
...faces in Viet Nam a situation from which it cannot extricate itself by any Cierna-like meeting. Despite the Paris peace talks and a lull of sorts on the battlefield, the main confrontation is still on the battlefield...
...government knows its history too, and has no intention of seeing it repeated. Last week a thick coating of asphalt settled over the elegantly patterned cobblestones of the Rue des Ecoles, the Rue Saint-Jacques and the Boulevard Saint-Michel, the main battlegrounds around the Sorbonne in France's recent upheavals. After all, the riots of 1830 and 1848 had sent two of Charles de Gaulle's predecessors, King Charles X and King Louis Philippe, into retirement and obscurity...
...thing, and his warped vision is too limited to see beyond the immediate mechanics of juggling wife, mistress, and friend. There is a glorious scene when, after the announcement of the second killing, Chris goes to Paul's house to tell Paul they must "stick together, that's the main thing," that Chris will shield Paul who he assumes has committed the crime. The door is locked and Chris must deliver the speech from outside; he is suspended in geographic limbo outside both houses. He walks nervously about Paul's house half-looking for an entrance, then turns to look...