Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There Vaughn pushed hard for farm-credit banks and rural roads to open up the interior. Like an oldtime circuit rider, he traveled around the country telling peasants, students and politicians that "Panama's main natural resource is not geographical-not the canal. It is the people and the land. And they must be developed...
...suspected for years that somewhere in that grand French personality there was a touch of fighting Irish blood. Now French and Irish genealogists can prove it. And who should it be that Charles de Gaulle, 74, hails back to but Rudricus the Great, who ruled Ireland with might and main for 70 years before he died in 219 B.C. His descendants took the name MacCartan, and in 1711, a MacCartan emigrated from the Auld Sod to France where he married convent-educated Susanne Decoetlogon, who bore him five children, one of whom turned out to be De Gaulle...
Important Irrelevancies. But the court does welcome artful amid and occasionally solicits Government briefs that truly ventilate legal issues. If the main parties lack legal talent, the court's ultimate opinion may even sound remarkably like the amicus brief-a type of plagiarism that amicus groups prize and proudly report to their members. Most often, amid do the valuable chore of arguing novel or shaky points that litigants either dare not or do not think to embrace. Even when they are initially rejected, such arguments are thus recorded and may later bear fruit. In 1950, for example, the N.A.A.C.P...
...world's growth and prosperity has been immense," said Johnson. "But our balance-of-payments deficit leaves me no choice." Since the U.S. feels that it cannot make major cuts in foreign aid or military spending abroad without endangering its security, the President concentrated on three main areas...
...requirements of the journey, Lewis invented a collapsible canoe, a powdered soup and a sturdy lightweight rifle that was promptly adopted by the army for all infantrymen. The expedition's armament was so awesome that during the entire trip no Indian nation dared risk battle with Lewis' main force...