Word: shall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...High-power politicians and high-minded evangelicals have a fascination for each other that more often than not gets them both into trouble. Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's constituency, but they do. Because they have such large followings, they find the temptation too great. Pols and preachers can't seem to stay away from each other...
...fear that you will be absorbed by this city and its decadent culture. What shall we tell them in Russia? That Trotsky, comrades, has become a New Yorker...
Certain clauses of the Foreign Agents Registration Act allow the Justice Department to review foreign-produced or distributed films and decide which of them shall be deemed "political propaganda." A Justice spokesman has asserted that the term is broad enough to include "a film about a country that boasts good seaports and low taxes...
There may be an "our song" for a cause (We Shall Overcome), for a college ("Bulldog, bulldog, bow wow wow, Eli Yale!"), for a specific event, like the release of the hostages (Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree), and even for an era (Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?). Nations have them. But The Star-Spangled Banner has never quite become "our song" in the way that the Marseillaise utterly and unquestionably belongs to the French. Politicians have their "our songs." John Kennedy may have thought of his Administration in terms of the words and music...