Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Prohibition Party's presidential candidate garnered more than 270,000 votes-or 2.2% of the total. Over the following decade the party was strong enough to elect several Congressmen, a few Governors and lots of local officials. In last year's election, a paltry 15,893 voters-.02% of the total-pulled the Prohibitionist lever. Moreover, the party, which was formed in 1869 and is the nation's third oldest, has not elected anybody to anything since the days when people drank their whisky out of teacups. What to do? Last week the party did what...
...isolated and ostracized will mean loneliness. Loneliness is an enemy of a person and of a nation. It makes you do funny things, stupid things-this we will have to guard against. But we can hibernate-and fairly long too. All of us, black and white, will suffer. But we will not be the only ones...
Richard Leakey's life work, in fact, has made him impatient with those of narrow ethnic and national perspectives. He makes it clear to all that he is a Kenyan and proud to be a citizen of that African nation. Furthermore, he notes that racial differences, as they are commonly perceived, are a superficial and recent development, having arisen only about 15,000 years ago. Says Leakey: "I am aghast that people think they are different from each other. We all share...
...authorities discriminate against relatives of former petty landowners. In one telling vignette, Munro writes of a man who insists that local postal clerks read his letters to an overseas relative, lest he be accused later of being counterrevolutionary. China, observes Munro, "in many ways is the most tightly controlled nation on earth...
Washington, the city of monuments, has one architectural landmark that is not widely recognized: its press corps forms the nation's largest echo chamber...