Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inquest. Explains one: "My God, can you imagine what the reaction would be if we refused to attend? The great coverup, right? We'll all be there, if for no other reason than to defend the reputation of Mary Jo." All of the girls were scheduled to spend the Labor Day weekend being briefed by Kennedy lawyers. Nothing in their backgrounds prepared them for the public scrutiny and suspicions to which they have been subjected...
...Russia and East Germany, Westerners may travel freely throughout Communist Europe. If they trouble to stray outside the tourist reservations, they meet with a warmth and welcoming generosity that is unmatched anywhere in the world. In the countryside, peasants offer to share their meal and provide a place to spend the night. This innocent unworldliness, one of the redeeming features of peoples living under Communism, is as yet unspoiled by the worst aspects of Western culture now being imported for the sake of hard currency. As a tourist attraction, it beats striptease and roulette and is surely...
...Punch. The chief irony of the power struggle was that it revolved around an office that is virtually powerless. As India's President, Giri will spend the next five years fulfilling largely ceremonial functions. Giri himself is not considered much of a mover and shaker these days, though in his youth he was a leading revolutionary. While he was studying law in Dublin, in fact, the British deported, him for his enthusiastic involvement in the Irish revolution. But that was long ago, and during the recent campaign his foes hinted that he was becoming senile. "Those who say that...
Expanding the system requires large amounts of capital investment. Under the direction of Chairman Thomas W. Moore, a former head of ABC Television, T.R.S. has already committed itself to spend $22 million to buy or lease computers and terminals from Control Data Corp. of Minneapolis, and plans to spend another $15 million. Last week, for an undisclosed sum, Control Data in turn acquired 50% of T.R.S.'s stock...
...knows how to ask questions - simple, single questions, one at a time, in order to develop facts in evidence either in interviewing a witness or examining him in a courtroom." As an example of a favorable trend, Burger praised the growing number of schools that permit their students to spend time on legal-aid and public-defender programs...