Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...backfires." Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, an old Goldwater operative, sits up front on the Nixonian stage, riding shotgun for John Mitchell on the Moratorium marchers. Everywhere on TV is Herb Klein, the Administration's director of communications, who with boyish grin and crinkly eyes, has proved a master of articulating the President's get-tough policies with a lowered voice...
Counterattacking, Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Mikhail Sholokhov, a master of vivid invective, last week likened Solzhenitsyn to a noxious plant pest. At a meeting of 4,500 Soviet farmers at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, the author of And Quiet Flows the Don drew a parallel between literature and collective farming in Russia. "We also have bumper and lean years," he said, "but you farmers have done away with pests, while we, unfortunately, still have Colorado beetles-those who eat Soviet bread but who want to serve Western bourgeois masters and send their works there through secret channels. Soviet...
...drew capsules from a large container. It read a date off of each capsule. It compiled a list of the dates in the order in which they were drawn. And from this list it made the Master Plan that dictates which of its citizens are to gave two years of their lives (maybe the last once) to murder and brutality and hared...
...graduate of Haverford College, Gunmere earned his master's and doctorate degree from Harvard. In his years as a graduate student, he introduced soccer at Harvard, and at 85 was still going to Harvard's football games...
...write almost seems to subside before the need to simply go on. Even though she was eventually driven to publish her own works in a loft before Edmund Wilson discovered Under a Glass Bell in 1944, Nin never failed to remind herself that "we exult in what we master and discover." The entries from January, 1942, relate the chore of handsetting and printing one's own books, and the triumph of attention, all amidst the background of convulsion in the world. After a terse notation of atrocities ("Bali invaded. Java invaded. Paris bombarded by the English, India rebelling against...