Word: six
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...average current events buff may claim to be well-informed about world affairs, but he will never talk to you about the story that regularly appears on about page six and that he six and that he just as regularly skims over. Guiltily glancing at the headline, he sights at the sight of another article about terrorist bombings in Londonderry, pauses for a moment, flinches, and then hurriedly moves on to the more attractive news of Jimmy Carter's latest goof or Edward Kennedy's latest coup. People just seem to keep killing each other senselessly...
...committed to peace in Ireland? She bravely told how her sister's three children, eight years, two years and six weeks old, had been killed when the car of a member of the provisional Irish Republican Army--Who moments before had been killed at the wheel by British gunfire-ran over the children...
...contest was short-circuited by six Yale turnovers; however, Columbia continually failed to capitalize on the breaks. The costilest of the Yale mistakes included a fumble in the end zone near the end of the first half...
Richmond, who has already won the Greater Boston and Massachusetts state titles this year, did not lose a set in her quest for the trophy. Losing only six games in the first three rounds, Richmond handily ousted entrants from U.N.H., Clark University, and UConn...
...services should be expanded or reduced, voters tended to feel government should spend more in most areas. Twice as many (45% to 22%) favored increased rather than decreased spending on education; three times as many (51% to 17%) favored more rather than less spending on health care; more than six times as many (59% to 9%) favored increased rather than decreased spending on fighting crime. A slim margin favored increased spending on defense and transportation. The only areas where a large majority of voters advocated cuts were in welfare and foreign aid. Just over 50% said that welfare spending...