Word: oft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these are chosen to stay on to work the handful of lucrative details that oil the relentless flow of events that comprises the Reunion. The "best" are, of course, chosen by the crew captains who supervise the work effort, and the promised tips of financially flush alumni are the oft-mentioned carrots that gets everyone on the stick...
...oft-expressed racial fears of the stern Calvinist Afrikaner society, which for years has successfully resisted the introduction of "the little bioscope," as TV is called in South Africa. Their chief anti-TV spokesman, Former Minister of Posts and Telegraphs Dr. Albert Hertzog, has even claimed that TV is "a deadly weapon" that has been used to "undermine the morale of the white man and even to destroy great empires." But when the walk on the moon by Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin was witnessed by most of the world on television in 1969, South Africa's populace began demanding...
Richard Nixon's oft-stated goals for his presidency are to leave his mark on foreign affairs and to introduce the best management techniques of the flow chart and the board room to the workings of Government. Last week he sent Congress an 8,000-word program aimed at achieving the best of both goals. It proposes an ambitious reorganization of foreign aid that would create a military aid setup to underwrite the Nixon Doctrine while turning economic development funds over to a new International Development Corporation. Closely tailored to the recommendations of a presidential commission headed by Rudolph...
...walked into the Loeb Ex Thursday night determined not to compare John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger with Liz Coe's production. After all, it was Osborne himself who thought that critics have continually overemphasized the social and historical values of his work. In an oft-repeated remark, he stated that his purpose was to make the audience "feel" something-and think about it afterwards...
...however, is only one feather on the American Imperial Eagle. The U. S. supports the racist regime in South Africa because of that country's vast gold and uranium deposits. And the story of United Fruit and Guatemala is an oft-told tale (sad but true). The list goes on, but the point should be clear...