Word: mainstays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...task of the Communist parties [abroad] is to support Soviet power, since the Soviet Union is the mainstay of the revolutionary movement in all countries...
...printed up posters advertising "high-paying, fun-filled positions" and distributed them on four Wisconsin campuses. So many orders poured in the first week that Randell quit his $12,500-a-year job and went into business for himself. The $2.95 guide has since turned into N.S.M.C.'s mainstay product; last year Randell sold 100,000 copies in three editions and recently Doubleday & Co. brought out a fourth for bookstore sale. The company also operates one of the nation's largest computerized dating services, and systematically mines the data for mailing lists. Through such ingenuity, Student Marketing...
...injuries suffered when struck by an automobile; in Miami Beach. Billed as "the Tiffany Songsters," Van and Schenck harmonized such tuneful memories as My Melancholy Baby and All She'd Say Was "Umh Hum" in a top-hat-and-cane act that made them a mainstay of the Ziegfeld Follies before it all ended when Schenck died...
...Against the background of white resentment, the colored communities are growing restive. Last week 1,000 Pakistanis demonstrated in London against what they called the government's failure to redress the grievances of the Pakistani community. Much of their bitterness is justified. Colored doctors and nurses are a mainstay of Britain's nationalized medicine, and bus services throughout Britain would grind to a halt without colored crews. No matter. Home Secretary James Callaghan, pressured by public opinion, told Parliament that the government will legislate against the loopholes in Britain's immigration laws...
...personal writing style. They have also grown more willing to court controversy. "We are trying to create an atmosphere in which people can speak about formerly taboo subjects," says Yomiuri Editor in Chief Yosoji Kobayashi. Not that the press is ever likely to depart from its role as a mainstay of the social structure. As a Tokyo city editor puts it, "We must be Japanese first, and then newspapermen...