Word: pose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eastern Seaboard, airline pilots flying north at dusk from Washington to Boston look down on a coruscating corridor of light, an unbroken, 450-mile-long conglomeration of 37 million Americans that is referred to by demographers as "the Eastern Megalopolis." Another area is growing even faster, and will ultimately pose bigger problems. This is the potential "Great Lakes Megalopolis," which will soon stretch without interruption from Pittsburgh to Chicago, by the year 2000 will contain a population of 45 million. Fortunately, in the opinion of City Planner Constantinos Doxiadis, the great heartland megalopolis has a natural focus and headquarters...
...absurdities of campaign rhetoric and rigmarole. He recalls that during televised debates, Lindsay carefully arranged in front of him vast numbers of index cards "on which were graven in Magic Marker salient points or statistics." Admits Buckley: "I had a mad impulse, one time when he went off to pose for a picture, to scramble the cards around, or maybe doctor the statistics just a little, horrible bit." Buckley also recalls envying candidates who could "manage a warming half-smile" for the audience when the panel moderator introduced them. He himself had practiced the smile at home, but "I completely...
...tourists the steps are only a prop, and they send their children to pose and play on them. They never pause to think of the massy stones as the lips of a Medieval hell-mouth or as the appropriate entrance to a Temple of Learning...
...would do better to stop agitating and consolidate what he has won. At the same time, much of the new black militancy is a result of frustration over what many Negroes consider their snail's pace of progress. Beneath the passion and the rhetoric, these two opposing views pose a root question about the state of the Negro in the U.S. today: just what advances have-and have not-been made by the nation's 21 million Negroes...
Neither police nor lawyers nor court employees would be allowed to publicize any opinions on the merits of the case. Police would also be forbidden to pose an arrested person for news photographs; the accused could not be interviewed unless he himself so requested in writing. To be sure, these pretrial rules would cut off crime reporters from their main sources, but diligent newsmen would still be free to dig up whatever they could find on their...