Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is, of course, only a start. Decades will be needed to make real headway against the Amazon's problems of poverty, illiteracy and disease. But a new outlook has come to the great river basin, and with it a new optimism. "You're going to see a lot of big changes around here," says American Bishop James Ryan, who is stationed in Santarém. "If they can do this much in two years, think what they...
...institution to be an institution, it must perforce have some rigidity." The U.S. has long managed to maintain a unique compromise between change and rigidity. Its earliest colonists came in flight from or defiance of an established order. Their earliest pride was that of the fresh start. "Under their hand, political principles, laws, and human institutions seem malleable, capable of being shaped and combined at will," wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. "A course almost without limits, a field without horizon, is revealed." Americans on the whole have tended to agree with Chesterton, who said: "Tradition means giving votes...
When I taste your lips Oh I start to shiver Can't control the quivering inside...
...delays the scheduled publication date, a campaign to publicize the new merged newspapers should get under way. Conniff and his colleagues hope it will be reasonably restrained. "All of us old-timers remember," he says, "how much they promised with PM and how disappointed we were right from the start...
...lucky enough to start with a name very well known in England. In your country, it is somewhat of a handicap to have a great father; few of your great men have had great sons...