Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take a bridge to cross a shallow creek that his men could easily have waded. Burnside's delay cost the Union a victory that might have changed the course of the war. True to form in such matters, Burnside was subsequently promoted to head the Army of the Potomac...
Also, it is highly unlikely that any form of voucher system could pass the Walz-Lemon test. Such programs plainly involve a subsidy to the parochial schools. MEYER EISENBERG Potomac...
Tricky Politician. Barry Goldwater guardedly endorsed Nixon's trip, but scattered voices on the far right decried Nixon's approach to Chinese Communists. Republican Congressman John Schmitz, who represents Nixon's home district in California, had been invited to cruise the Potomac aboard the presidential yacht Sequoia, but he announced that he was "breaking all relations with the White House" until the President "reverses this decision and apologizes for having made it." Another Californian, former Marine Captain George Brokate, publicly threw into a trash can a plaque of appreciation he had received from Nixon for donating...
...Even fairly affluent women are increasingly lured by that extra check. Typical is a mother of four in suburban Potomac, Md., who revealed her financial picture with the stipulation that she remain anonymous. Though her husband earns $23,500 a year as a Government lawyer, his income is not enough to buy luxuries. So she took a $10,000-a-year teaching job. Since then, the couple has bought a new $60,000 home, two new cars, color TV and other appliances, and plans to take a one-month family vacation in Italy this summer. "When I put my check...
Beyond the rhetoric of Fourth of July speeches, Americans have usually basked in the conviction that their past was exemplary, their present comfortable and their future horizonless. No longer, according to Hopes and Fears of the American People, a new study of the national psyche put out by Potomac Associates, a research and analysis organization...