Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once, Harvard had started a race behind, and the Crimson, playing an unfamiliar role, just couldn't catch...
...mood of the American people is to take a hard look at the limits of U.S. military power in the world," Harris says. "Only a small 8% want to see a larger role in the world for American military power, on the assumption that 'this is the only way in which Communism can be stopped' and 'this is the only way respect for the U.S. can be maintained.' But more than four times this number, 34%, say they would like to reduce the U.S. military role in the world, reasoning that 'we are overextended...
...life in 1934 for murdering and conspiring to murder two gambling competitors, a Toledo bootlegger and the bootlegger's girl friend. Before commutation, Licavoli was not eligible for parole; Ohio law forbids it in the case of a life sentence for first-degree murder. Now, however, the pa role board can vote to free him at any time. Licavoli has relatives who are Cosa Nostra powers in Michigan, Ohio and Arizona. If released, he would live in a Grosse Pointe, Mich., house until now occupied by an in-law who is still in the rackets...
Jean-Paul Belmondo, hero of Breathless, plays the lead role of Ferdinand (the name of a king of Spain during the Inquisition), a man whose life has drifted away from him without his realizing it. He had sold out when he married an Italian girl who had a lot of money and now he is bored. He goes to a party with his wife. The camera follows his point of view as he wanders around the party aimlessly staring at the people there, always puffing on his Gauloise Bleue. In a highly stylized sequence, different groups of Beautiful People repeat...
Calkins was immediately cast in the role of crusading reformer challenging the entrenched party hacks. He ran an exhausting campaign, fought hard to shake a suburbanite-carpet-bagger image, and finally came in third out of six candidates. That was enough to get him a four-year seat on the Board...