Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compensation for black-lung disability. He campaigned on the theme of bringing the union closer to the miners-literally and figuratively. He promised not only to reduce the president's $50,000 salary, but also to relocate the union headquarters from Washington, D.C., to a spot nearer the mines. Miller, who had horrified the traditionalists by arguing for stronger controls of strip mining, credited his victory to the younger miners. "Sixty percent of the work force today are 30 years of age or under," he said, "and they are all very much aware of the issues." His new secretary...
...Common Market club, so long as it is ruled by Franco or anyone like him. On the other hand, Western Europe hopes to influence the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the direction of liberalism, with a policy of "Wandel dutch annäherung," or "change through drawing nearer," as West German Chancellor Willy Brandt puts it. That same policy might equally and more profitably be applied to Spain...
...WESTERN POWERS, in general, hope that in return for greater trade and economic cooperation, the Communist leaders can be induced to allow increased contact and a freer flow of information between East and West. Accepting Brandt's thesis of Wandel durch Annädherung (change through drawing nearer), most Western diplomats believe that Communist regimes in Eastern Europe will ultimately be influenced toward greater liberalism through closer contacts with the West...
This necessity has alternated them from their students and their students from them to the point that Louisiana's moderate Governor, Edwin W. Edwards, has commented on the Southern tragedy. "I'm a white man and Dr. Netterville is a black man, but I come nearer to understanding those students than he does...
Pound's mission in life, as he announced in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, was "To resuscitate the dead art/ of poetry; to maintain the sublime/ In the old sense." After the rhetoric and moral posturing of the Victorians, he declared early for a different approach -harder, saner, nearer the bone, Pound said, "austere, direct, free from emotional slither." Then as gadfly, teacher, prosodist and selfless promoter of gifted contemporaries (Eliot, Yeats, Frost), he encouraged the spare, sensuous verse, the ironic double vision that has helped modern poets consider and refine the challenges and confusions of a new and terrifying century...