Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...endless lauding of John Wayne [June 25] as an American hero and patriot has now gone too far. Enthusiastic as he was for the glorious wars fought by this nation, he was politically naive and simplistic. He never saw battle except on a movie set. He did not know war as the terrible and tragic thing...
...imported oil, took the same view; Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira reportedly dismissed the European plan as "very clever." Canada, where domestic oil production is also leveling off, joined the U.S. and Japan in urging that the summiteers set specific, country-by-country import quotas, adjusted to reflect each nation's differing circumstances...
Shell-shocked, Lansing Lamont slogged through the battlefields of the nation's most prestigious universities, fending off grade frenzy, resisting sexual anarchy, getting the material for the folks back home. Why top-ranked schools? "Hell, I didn't want to go out somewhere to some Animal House, where there are no serious academics really, but those places that provide material for the leadership posts," Lamont explained in a recent interview...
...busy airports, the blue and white coveralls of the nation's 130,000 aircraft mechanics used to fade unnoticed into the background. No longer. After the crash of an American Airlines DC-10 on Memorial Day weekend, investigators called attention to the disturbing possibility that cracks in the wing engine mounts could have been put there when mechanics routinely overhauled the engine...
...nation had been kept free of invasion for two centuries by the fierce reputation of the samurai swordsmen and by the power of artful invention: strips of canvas were displayed on the seacoast when ships passed near. On the strips were murals of forts, and on the battlements of the painted forts were painted cannons...