Word: restful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sense. They wanted to make me drop my pack, as Mike had done. By then I knew enough to say no. We were below treeline, and although my fingers were still numb and non-functioning, there was no more snow, only rain. I knew I would make it the rest...
...G.O.P. breakthroughs were mostly individual. As in the rest of the country, elections in the South did not generally turn on party lines or the President's popularity. Perhaps because local taxes tend to be lower in the South, there were also fewer manifestations of the tax-cut issue. In fact there were few issues at all: attention seemed to focus on such trivial things as, in Texas, a spurned handshake (Senator Tower's public rebuff to Democrat Robert Krueger) and, in Virginia, a famous wife...
...Brown's popularity was not enough to keep voters in California, as in the rest of the West, from crisscrossing nimbly from one column to another. Although they generally ignored party labels, they followed a consistent theme: they rewarded candidates who favored conservative issues such as limits on government spending, tax cuts and tougher law enforcement. It was the G.O.P. that profited most from this trend. Altogether, Republicans in the region netted one additional seat in the U.S. Senate, three in the House of Representatives and two governorships...
...Lintas agency network still owned by Unilever, the British-Dutch food, detergents and toiletries concern. SSC&B bought 49% of Lintas from Unilever in 1970, but until now has been unable to pull together enough capital to make good on an option to buy the rest...
...chance to regain the title when he was slow to go to a neutral corner. Given an extra four seconds to clear his head?the famous Gene Tunney in his prime (1926) Aloof from the Damon Runyon types. "long count"?Tunney got up and outboxed Dempsey the rest of the way to save his championship...