Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wilber begins to tell me of his admiration for Calvin Coolidge (Herbert Hoover was another convention favorite), his wife appears and asks about a man who has just walked into the hotel and wants to be a delegate. Wilber instructs her to have him pay his money, sign in, and wait for some brief questioning. Convention officials make no secret of any of this. The next day, when the roll call for president reaches Maine, a debate between the state chairman and convention secretary ensues over whether Maine has paid $100 each for the number of delegates they claim...
...have always wondered if a Southerner put up that famous sign over the Western bar: "I ain't what I oughta be; I ain't what I'm gonna be; but I ain't what...
...they are almost evenly divided on whether the worst is behind the nation. Most Ford supporters think that this is the case; most Carter supporters are worried about what lies ahead. Said Mrs. De-Wilde: "Industry is beginning to build. Housing developments are going up. This is a good sign that the worst is behind us." On the other hand, Nellie Hohnke, a Carter supporter from Kalamazoo, Mich., maintained that "the war is at least behind us, but I don't think the economy will get any better unless there are some changes." Whether the mood of the electorate...
Inside the doorway, we stopped to sign the rice-paper pages of the funeral book. The atmosphere was somber, almost religious. An atonal Chinese funeral dirge seemed to intensify the silence of the mourners and the tomblike coolness of the air-conditioned hall. The chamber was filled with row upon row of white mourning wreaths. At the end of a red carpet 50 yards ahead of us stood Mao's funeral bier, a glass-topped coffin planted in a bed of bright green grasses, layered with formal yellow chrysanthemums and red hibiscuses in full bloom. Dominating that...
...really think the area is on the downswing in terms of crime these days," says Lenny Saviano, a detective in the Cambridge police department, whose familiar neon sign ("POLICE") is itself a famous Square landmark...