Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...season is traditionally a time for taking stock, for judging and assessing. This year, although there is widespread anxiety about the current inflation, and about the ability of the Carter Administration to control it, the nation is undeniably prospering. This year's unemployment rate is the lowest since 1974, and 95.2 million people are at work, more than ever before. The output of the nation's industries last month was a healthy 6.8% higher than a year ago. And the crops are in, a record, silo-bursting harvest -an estimated 6.8 billion bu. of corn, 8% more than...
...that when we think of memorable speeches, we think of Kennedy's talk as President-elect to the Massachusetts legislature, and the challenge to the nation to be people of "courage, judgment, integrity and dedication"; his Inaugural Address; his Berlin exhortation, "Ich bin ein Berliner"! There was a resonance with our aspirations in those speeches, but there also was a heady reach for excellence of language and of thought...
...such great fun. The programs and the crisis management were sometimes forgettable but the lift was always there. The Kennedys nurtured the nation's spirit; they planted hope before they designed new schemes. They led an adventure that had its roots in Boston's Irish wards and embraced great wealth, the Harvard Yard and the hint of sin at El Morocco. It was not always in the best of taste, but it bubbled...
Teddy Kennedy has now gathered the threads of that family heritage. And not even his escapades could give long pause to the country's yearning for another interlude of political uplift. Anyone who has traveled the nation during these past 15 years and paused to measure the Kennedy feeling has sensed it beneath the surface. The Senator these days seems almost as much a captive of the legend as the man who is exploiting it. He rides along with relish. But he also is driven to keep up with the legend, build...
...occasion was Houston Plus One, and across the nation last weekend, women celebrated. They picnicked in the parking lot of the Iowa capitol, had tea in the Michigan Governor's mansion, held a wine and cheese party in New Jersey, opened an exhibit of Women's Conference mementos at the Louisville Free Public Library...