Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think we may have missed the main point," volunteered Singer Kitt, 39. "The young people are angry, and their parents are angry, because they are being so highly taxed and there's a war on-and Americans don't know why." Staring at Mrs. Johnson, she snapped: "You are a mother too, although you had daughters and not sons. I am a mother, and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut. I have a baby and then you send him† off to war. No wonder the kids rebel and take...
President James Madison asked Congress for $50,000 to help Venezuelan earthquake victims, and U.S. aid to allies in distress has been consistent ever since. Tripp's main problem, predictably, is coping with "bureaucratic bog-down": he often negotiates personally with medical-supply stores to rent iron lungs, and last July he turned Sears, Roebuck & Co. into an Omar the Tentmaker to provide $1,800,000 worth of "Ted Williams Campers" for 100,000 Jordanians displaced by the Arab-Israeli war. Tripp is an avid outdoorsman and thus an aficionado of tent living by avocation...
...army to battle in the war in South Viet Nam. Since that bloody debut in the la Drang Valley, which cost Hanoi 2,000 men, North Vietnamese troops have marched southward in such numbers that there are now 67,000 below the DMZ-more than half the Communists' main force and doing far more than half of the enemy's fighting in South Viet Nam. Initially, the allies knew very little about their new antagonists beyond the mute evidence on the battlefields. Today a great deal is known, painstakingly pieced together from interrogations...
First, Surgeon Norman E. Shum-way's team concluded that Kasperak's life was threatened by liver and pile-duct trouble, for which they must operate. They found that Kasperak's main bile duct had been blocked by internal bleeding. They removed the gall bladder and inserted a tube to keep the duct open, and thus keep bile flowing to the small bowel, and to permit drainage if necessary...
...second main objection to the poll is more obvious. Percentages given were not of the total number of people who answered the poll, but of a slightly smaller number who answered the question being referred to. This should explain what appeared to be numerical miscalculations of about one per cent...