Word: portions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pallbearers in the full state funeral in Red Square. Nikita himself stood solemnly in the honor guard just before the body was cremated, and a band played the Internationale as the urn of ashes was placed briefly at the foot of the Kremlin wall, near the spot where a portion of I.W.W. Founder Big Bill Haywood's ashes are buried. In due course, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn's ashes will be flown to the U.S. and buried in Chicago's Waldheim Cemetery beside the remains of many old comrades (including the other part of Big Bill) from...
...accepted Lyndon's prophecy at face value, however. For as devoutly as he and other Americans hoped that one day poverty would be banished, the cruel truth is that the three-year program as now constituted -or more precisely, jerry-built-stands little chance of eradicating any substantial portion of poverty. Democrats and Republicans alike hold that opinion, although naturally the Republicans are more vocal in their criticism. Says New Jersey's liberal Republican Congressman Peter Frelinghuysen: "This act is going to undermine the programs we already have operating. Overlap and duplication are almost inevitable...
...Goldwater hopes to win the election by wooing that portion of our society that seeks to perpetuate white supremacy, if he neglects to condemn openly and forthrightly its bigotry, if he hopes by his silence to encourage its vote, then he may be successful. But he will have sold out his convictions and become President for the most heinous reason in our nation's history...
...Chase Manhattan Bank, who had been attending a meeting in Leningrad when Nikita summoned him. In a "relaxed, friendly, even though extremely frank" atmosphere, Khrushchev renewed his insistence that trade between the U.S. and Russia be increased, told the financier that Russia would be willing to pay a sizable portion of her $10.8 billion wartime Lend-Lease debt in return for long-term U.S. credit, and even discussed Barry Goldwater...
...York City and its people are only peripherally involved. For most New Yorkers the riots could probably have happened in another city. Only the three glistening riot helmets in the rear window of every squad car remind the City of the disturbances a small portion of it is presently experiencing...