Word: microcosm
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...There in microcosm was the contest as it had been played out in state after state. The President had set an audacious test for himself when he transformed the mid-term election into a referendum on his presidency and his person. Thus he traveled 17,000 miles through 23 states (Spiro Agnew logged 32,000 miles across 32 states), and he and his party emerged weaker than before. What is astonishing is how badly Nixon and many of his candidates misread the electorate's mood...
SECOND: The campaign against the Center is at bottom an attack on social science research and on academic freedom itself. The research at the Center is only a microcosm of social science research in American universities, as the full list of CFIA publications make apparent. In practical terms the Center is an adjunct of the various departments of Government, Economics, Social Relations and related disciplines. It facilitates comparative studies and exchanges of data, ideas and criticism across disciplines and between various approaches in the international field...
...Seventh is a microcosm of American political concern and action in 1970. Its rich dairyland country increasingly feels the encroachments of large factories. Its economy is lagging. Taxes are high. Republican Andre LeTendre is emphasizing his support of Richard Nixon (and the Green Bay Packers) as he asks his neighbors to send him to Congress. Democrat David Obey is there now and wants to stay...
...explained Navy Lt. Owen Heggs, a black attorney from Washington, D.C., "is black people themselves. White people haven't changed. The same people in the military today were in the military in 1930, 1940 and so on. What has changed is the black population. As the military represents in microcosm the society we live in, black people today in the lower ranks represent the young black movement in our country...
...established 47 such villages in Europe and elsewhere. Special trains from Paris and Brussels and luggage-laden cars from a dozen countries arrive each Sunday, disgorging 250 middle-class families and turning the village's 60 acres of pine woods and two miles of beach into a microcosm of the Continent-half French and a third Belgian, with Italians, Dutch, Scandinavians, Swiss, Germans and English making up the rest. After two weeks in this Little Europe, TIME Correspondent John Shaw sent the following account of the Continent's mood at midsummer...