Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Magnificent 13 have had some training in the martial arts, and some admit to carrying knives for protection when journeying alone at night, on patrol they have no weapons and even refused the walkie-talkie radios that the Transit Authority urged them to use. They do not want to seem part of the police. Patrolling, they check out the stations first, particularly those of elevated trains, which are always badly lit. Once aboard a train they split up, striding through the cars looking for potential targets such as drunks or women alone, and for potential troublemakers, usually small groups...
...founded the Texas chapter of the American Jewish Committee, had hitherto been known primarily as a highly effective back-room pol. His arm-twisting skill in negotiating a new pact that lowered tariffs between the U.S. and its major trading partners and his rapport with the President seem to have weighed more heavily with Carter than Strauss's uncertain knowledge of Middle Eastern realities. Says an Administration official: "The object was to get a guy in there who could speak with the authority of the President, so that Carter won't have to get as closely involved...
There is a new urgency, and a sense of responsibility to the anti-nuclear movement. Perhaps that is because the issues now seem to be resolving themselves into clearer and more fundamental choices. Some understood these choices long ago. As two distinguished scientists and humanitarians, Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russelt, put it earlier in the Nuclear...
USUALLY, ONLY the photographs are true. Usually, the words and numbers--telling us of the hundreds of millions who would die, and of the smoking, charred rubble and flesh that would remain--seem more like lurid black humor than objective reporting. Or worse, the truth of nuclear war gets omitted completely--it is a truth too sensational to be believed, too obscene to be printed...
...would seem, there isn't really anything the matter with Larry Brown, or with the Harvard baseball team. Just a little lapse, a brief bout with mediocrity that afflicts even the most talented athlete, even the most talented team...