Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter brought his own brand of courtesy to the White House from the first day, when he turned around on the Inaugural stand to thank Gerald Ford for helping to heal the nation. It has saved him many a time from total rejection...
...work of piety and chanty in our churches ... the men who own and till their own farms ...the men who went to war ... and saved the nation's honor ... by the natural law of their being find their place in the Republican Party. While the old slave owner and slave driver, the saloon keeper, the ballot box stuffer ...the criminal class of the great cities, the men who cannot read or write, by the natural law of their being find their congenial place in the Democratic Party...
...York. "It used to be fashionable to beat the bosses. Now people are recognizing that you can get strong leadership from an organized political establishment." Still, it is clear that the powers and purposes of both parties are becoming thoroughly circumscribed. It would be lamentable if some day the nation's two great political parties were reduced to performing merely decorative and ceremonial duties, with candidates taking the party label in the same spirit that ships sail under Liberian registry-a flag of convenience, and no more. - Lance Morrow
...strain showed in ( his face, but he was not cracking. Indeed, he appeared to be spurred on by anger over what he feels was the deception and gross negligence of former friends and officials, like Hoveida, on whom he counted to help build his dream of a modern nation. These men should not languish in comfort and luxury, supporters say, while he lives through the most perilous time of his reign...
This week they will try to do something drastic about it at the biennial general conference of the 146-nation United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Paris. Third World delegates are pushing for adoption of a draft declaration on the mass media that many Western diplomats and journalists consider a grave threat to press freedom. The document is based on a similar resolution proposed at UNESCO's 1970 meeting by the Soviets and rewritten since then to eliminate some of its more heinous features. Yet the present 1,500-word version still contains several provisions with chillingly Orwellian...