Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first announced Harvard's opposition to voluntary surrender of the land, the grounds for support of his position have expanded. The issue is no longer only the obligations of trusteeship, but obligations to the environment and the public interest as well. Harvard must grow into new responsibilities, rather than shrink from its old ones...
...expected of the Oklahoma Democrat when he was first elected Speaker two years ago. He proved to be something of a disappointment. Serious, short a graduate of both the elementary school of Bug Tussle Okla and Oxford, he is one of the brainiest men in Congress but seemed to shrink from the head knocking a strong House leader must perform. Now he promises new toughness; he intends to demand total loyalty from Democrats on the Rules Committee, and he is showing signs of stiffening on the Viet Nam War issue. If Congress is to change, Albert must lead...
...Gore Vidal, who wrote the screenplay. Katherine Hepburn is Aunt Venable, raising carnivorous plants in her garden and dreaming of her son, Sebastian, a gay post who ended up being eaten by canaibah. Elizabeth Taylor is the traumatized niece who witnessed the set, and Montgomery Clift is the shrink who cures her. Overacted, overwritten and overheated...
...Americans would be out of work than if the U.S. pushed on to the traditional "full employment" target of 4%. Economists generally believe that getting down to a 4% jobless rate would require a continuation for several more years of the huge deficits that Nixon is absolutely determined to shrink...
...lieutenant colonel. A bit belligerently, the former World War II bomber pilot declared: "I'm not overawed by generals like some politicians who've never been in service." Yet he insists that his alternative national defense posture provides for basic U.S. security and that he would not shrink from using military force if necessary. "I'm not a pacifist," he says. "If we confront another Hitler or a clear threat to our national interests, I'd respond with power. It's a dangerous world, and some people only understand force...