Word: scorings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This reflects Nixon's deliberate decision to move slowly, steadily and to cool down both the pace and the passions that characterized the last Johnson years. The Nixon Administration has yet to make several score major appointments. Far from "cleaning house in the State Department," as he promised during the campaign, Nixon has made fewer changes than John Kennedy did when he took over from a Republican Administration in 1961. There is no set of proposals that might be labeled the Nixon program. There is as yet no significant departure from Johnson policy in any major area...
...believe for a single moment that one will be spared those moldy chestnuts that New York play-scripters toss at Philadelphia is to guess wrong. Sample torpid humor: "At the stage when most men prosper, I live in Philadelphia on three dollars a day." The musical score might have led Van Gogh to dispose of his remaining ear, and a brigade of crippled pigeons could have performed better dance numbers. There is a degradation of intellect, taste and dignity about the entire musical. The men involved were the architects of a great republic, men of passion, probity and reason. Touched...
...books. Widmerpool, an ambition addict who flourishes amidst the adversities of the rest of the world, turns up as a colonel, squeezing the epaulettes of power until the pips squeak. These exits and re-entrances emphasize that it is high time for Powell's publishers to provide a score to The Music of Time-not a musical score but a box score, giving the family trees and vital statistics of the more than 100 characters involved...
...have to bury our slight differences and score. We can. We have to tell the faculty that we just will not be chewed up by a competitive grading system--that our futures will not be determined by six day in June," Asher concluded...
Cavanagh took Dan DeMichele's pass and slipped a short shot by McRae for his 24th goal and 62 point of the season. Mark's score came at 9:37 after stickhandling through the Tech defense and faking McRae...