Word: partially
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wilson's partial alternative to the confusion of the present anti-poverty program is to disburse federal funds directly to the poor: "it increases the freedom and resources of the recipient" and "places minimal demands on the bureaucratic system...
...DeBakey concedes that a partial or even total artificial heart must be considered only a stopgap, until preventive measures against heart disease are perfected. But even if these were achieved tomorrow, he declares, "the present generation would require the benefits of a workable artificial heart." Such a device might save the lives of an estimated 300,000 U.S. heart-attack victims each year...
...visit was quick, intuitively right and rewarding. The decision to go south of the border was made during a restless week at the L.B.J. ranch, where Johnson, fretful over the uncertainties of Viet Nam, was persuaded to make the trip. The President has always been partial toward Mexico-Mexican-Americans in his congressional district had in fact given him most constant support-and the Mexicans responded in kind. Some 25,000 greeted the President, Lady Bird, Lynda and Luci at the airport, and enthusiastic shouting crowds of more than 1,000,000-the polite official estimate was twice that many...
...close attention to diplomatic detail: antagonists were seated well apart from one another; security guards were watchful but unobtrusive (two were stationed in the attic of Government House); detailed instructions were posted all the way down to the houseboy level. "It should be noted that guests from Ethiopia are partial to good strong coffee," read one notice. The leaders met in Kenyatta's library-the most soundproof room in the mansion. There was purposely no agenda, for, as Jomo said: "That would have deprived us of spontaneity...
Drawing the chief epithets was Kienholz's 1964 work Back Seat Dodge-'38, composed in part of a truncated '38 Dodge. In the back seat, amid a debris of cigarette wrappers and beer bottles, is a partial plaster figure of a girl being fondled by a man fashioned out of chicken wire. When the car door is opened, a light floods the interior and the viewer is as startled at seeing himself reflected as voyeur in the mirrors inside as he is by the scene before...