Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sang Nearer, My God, to Thee, and she carried the flag in her school when it paid tribute to the fallen William McKinley. The robust Teddy Roosevelt was part of her wedding, so to speak. At least he was in the White House. Ross did Wilson's bidding. One day in 1917 he harnessed up his team and climbed in the wagon and drove through the flooded Nodaway River to sign up for World War I conscription. They needed him more on the farm, it turned...
...What presidential candidate announced: "We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land...
...that the ice has been broken, we will be tempted to send more messages to nearer stars, but all of us should have a chance to see what kind of image we are conveying to someone out there. By inviting contact with a superior civilization, we may be risking the fate suffered by the American Indians during the European expansion...
Last month Angus was accepted by Harvard, and the dream seemed nearer. Quite suddenly, disaster struck his family once again: his mother suffered a stroke, and she too became bedridden. It seemed the dream would have to be deferred, until a reporter for the Southern Illinoisan wrote about Angus' hardship. Though Angus, who will be valedictorian of his 26-member graduating class, won a $5,250 Harvard scholarship, he estimates it will cost $1,300 a month to hire help and pay for medical care for his mother and brother while he is away. Several people responded...
...supernationalistic younger officers, who are known as Gaddafists in honor of Firebrand Libyan Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. The Gaddafists now support loannidis, but they could shift, as he did against Papadopoulos. Even if they do, however, the likely outcome would be tighter rule, and the Greeks would be no nearer democracy than they have been since 1967. For the foreseeable future, democracy has been effectively throttled in the land where it was born...