Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failure, Jimmy Carter was saved from peanut farming by success. Angels of ambition -Admiral Rickover's "Why not the best?", a Baptist preacher's contempt for spare-time religion, his engineer's want to shape things so they are right, a touch of anger at the neighborhood's black-baiters-wrestled him out of the warehouse and into wider fields...
Mayor Daley: Actually, I was always trying to be worthy of Chicago. I lived all my life in the same neighborhood-Bridgeport. I never wanted to live anywhere else. I wanted to make life better for my neighbors, and their neighbors. To build a city we could all be proud...
...Soviets would get additional secret papers and the names of CIA agents who might be vulnerable to seduction by the KGB. The note instructed the Soviets to make two payoffs-$3,000 to be dropped off at 2 p.m. the next day beside a fire hydrant in an affluent neighborhood of Bethesda, Md., and a second payoff of $197,000 at the same place a few hours later...
...Several times she stepped back inside the den just to hear the names. Amy Carter burst into her father's study at one point, and Carter, with great delight, showed her his new white speaker telephone that plugged directly into the White House switchboard. She immediately called a neighborhood friend on the phone, and Carter and Jordan watched with amusement as she pretended she needed a school assignment...
...emit an exultant plonk! or ping! when the player smites the ball (losers supply their own Nastase noises). They can also be used for squash and handball. In the ticktacktoe game, the set may sneer, flashing a sign-off YOU LOSE TURKEY. For those who want to be the neighborhood Bobby Hull, most of the sets programmed for tennis also provide a hockey game in which armchair dudes can try to blast a puck past an agile goalie. Soccer aficionados can pretend they are Pelé, since the same game simulates soccer. For would-be Andrettis, there is Indy...