Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first black student, the football team had to travel to Pennsylvania and even West Virginia to play." After working in Detroit, Kane served as our Miami correspondent for a year, then moved to the Atlanta bureau. This week's assignment, which he describes as an "attempt to shed light on the difference between William Faulkner and Willie Morris," was thus a natural for him. About the only thing Kane felt unprepared for was interviewing Governor Carter at 6:30 a.m., the time Carter was least distracted by official business...
...thrall can be broken, the frontier reopened. The South can grow rich while there is still time to safeguard the land from despoliation. It can acquire once more the political power of the sons who helped articulate the nation's independence. Above all, it has a chance to shed its old hatreds and show the U.S. the way to a truly integrated society...
...irrational: the desperate attempt of a veteran to express the frustration, horror and futility of what he has witnessed and participated in, or the policy that demands yet more American and Vietnamese blood to wash away the admitted mistake for which so much blood and tears have already been shed...
...years old-born April 12, 1898, near Mullins, S.C. But McMillan came under criticism last January from liberals who claimed, among other things, that he was too old to be chairman of the House District of Columbia Committee. Now, in the just-published Congressional Directory, McMillan has miraculously shed four years. His birth date is listed as April 5, 1902. "I don't know his age," claims an assistant. "Make him anything between 65 and 75." Perhaps Ponce de León should have run for Congress. If McMillan can stay in the House another 20 years...
...Israelis themselves are extremely uncertain, and accordingly uneasy about the answers to those riddles. In Washington, a U.S. official wonders whether Sa dat is not being more shrewd than moderate. Recalling Sadat's youthful reputation as a firebrand, the official mused: "You can't shed all your ideas, beliefs, and habits of thinking overnight." British Arabist Desmond Stewart, author of the recently published, The Middle East: Temple of Janus, says, "Where Nasser was a pacifist who spoke in bellicose terms, Sadat is a bellicose man who talks in pacific terms." Sadat's performance up to now as President, however...