Word: poses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winter wonderland. "I want to see the real hunters in Siberia and see how they live, how they battle with nature and how they prepare their food. It will be very interesting to live among these courageous people." Then it was off to romp in the snow, pose for photographers on a sled and zip down a children's playground slide on a rug. "I want to tell you the same thing I tell Cuban children," he cooed to a bevy of Russian towheads. "Learn well, and master knowledge so as to set an example to all the children...
Governor Brown listened to the advice punctuating the conversation with expressions of interest: "Oh, are ya? . . . How do you think it's going? . . . Do you really . . ." The fact is that he was interested in the conversation. The extraordinary thing about the Governor is that political mannerisms are not a pose for him, but an integral part of his personality. This gives him limits as well as assets: it makes him a bland figure, despite his sometimes courageous political positions. He seems almost incapable of offending anyone...
Some suspicious collegians think the correction programs pose a serious and unwelcome threat to their treasured 4-F ratings. However, as Johnson predicted, the principal effect of the programs should be to provide medical and psychiatric treatment for those who cannot afford such services. The Army has long offered the only successful mass job training program in the country; it could now very well serve another social function by facilitating a necessary health program, which would be immune to charges of socialism. The failure of nearly half the men examined last year to qualify for the Army testifies...
...Dominican hills, waging a hit-and-run war against the three-man junta that rules the Caribbean island nation. The guerrillas call themselves the 14th of June Movement (in imitation of Castro's 26th of July group), and estimates of their strength run to 250 men. While they pose no immediate threat to the government, their nuisance bombs and countryside ambushes make everybody nervous...
...right time to learn. So at Gilford, N.H., where she now runs a ski school, it was Penny Pitou and her son, too, out in the snow for his first lesson. And with proud Mom, 25, grinning from muffed ear to muffed ear, Christian, 2, struck a pose that proved he was to the manner born...