Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country." Theoretically, then, that devotion ought to be a virtue, a tribute to a citizen's character. To believe in one's country is, after all, to believe in something larger than one's self, to uphold a faith in a considerable portion of humanity. By most global standards, the notion of patriotism still defines the honored achievements of courage, industry and humility...
...demonstrators who joined in increasingly militant antiwar actions from 1965 onward were only a portion of this number. Other Americans stayed at home in Dayton and Indianapolis, but doubts clawed at their idealized version of their nation and its government...
...them so it anybody has any challenges I'm open to this. It seems to me that one thing that absolutely has to be said first is that this was an extraordinary decade when students at this college and other colleges saw themselves perceived as enemies by a large portion of this country outside the campus, and at times saw themselves. I believe, perceived as enemies by some people within the University community. And in a situation like this the standards of objective, impersonal impartial journalism, that The Crimson trained its members in for so many decades, these premises just...
...rows of men swinging down the street singing a Redskin or Dolphin fight song was common. At the palacial Century Plaza Hotel, NBC held a party for its staff and friends. The guests were heavily pre-Washington and D.C. Mayor Walter Washington attended with his wife and a sizeable portion of the D.C. government...
...decades after their author's death, which then prompt a revision of his life and work these documents compel the reader to reevaluate his library and his notebook, those two vessels of humane learning. In time, he realizes that what he has collected represents no more than a mere portion of what there is, and resolves to devote his labors to the subjective, to whatever mirrors and enhances his own suspicions about the nature of existence...