Word: parently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even these moments were tinged with unreality. The egg-thrower, despicable as his act was (he hurled the missile and then dashed out an exit) is not the real enemy of disarmament--nor are his parent right-wing organizations. These people are easy to spot and easy to dislike, but they exert little direct influence over national policy and their mood scarcely reflects the temper of the nation...
...early campaigning was his dullness. Stolid and rigid, with cold blue eyes and a piping voice that made him sound slightly ridiculous, he left his audiences unimpressed. In midcampaign, however, he switched tactics. He struggled to lower his voice a few notes, assumed the role of a wise parent, and at the same time began pepping up his campaign with vicious personal attacks on Quadros. He called Quadros everything from insane to dictatorial, said that Quadros' election would lead to bloody civil war, charged that Quadros was trying to buy the election with a slush fund provided by foreign...
...settings for application of such knowledge and skills." Adds Cornell's Dr. McDermott: "To reduce pollution significantly would require changes in our personal habits and costly changes for our industry and our Government. It is pointless to search for a culprit in this situation. Unlike the veteran parent, we cannot say simply, 'I don't care who did it-you pick it up.' We must all pick it up together...
...meanwhile emerged as a third major network, and it was competitively necessary to match its frank and potent mediocrities. What really bothered the NBC brass was not Crosby's charge of mediocrity but his suggestion that the network is not making money. As part of the parent RCA, NBC's profit-loss figures are never released, but management insisted that NBC as a whole is doing better financially than ever...
Newspapers constantly relay the rejoicings of the sweepstakes winner and the parent whose kidnaped child has been found alive. And LIFE once photographed that rare dawning in which a young girl first realizes that she will be beautiful...