Word: station
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand, in November of 1967 the Greater Laconia-Weirs Beach Chamber of Commerce had as its guest speaker the former Vice President, Richard Nixon, a loser in the 1962 California gubernatorial election and more recently a Wall Street lawyer. Nixon was aware of his reduced station. He seemed properly humble as he sat at the head table, listening appreciatively to the reading of the minutes of the last meeting. He even grinned at the jokes told by the chairman of the organizing committee for a forthcoming dinner dance, who went into some detail about preparations, and told his listeners...
...sweeping changes won quick approval from Washington, which hailed the new government as "progressive and reasonable." It also won the cautious endorsement of San Salvador's Archbishop Oscar Romero y Galdamez. In a broadcast over the national radio station, the archbishop pleaded with his countrymen to give the new regime time to prove that "its beautiful promises are not dead letters but rather a real hope that a new era has begun for our country...
Football games, no matter what the outcome, are something of a filling station for the Lear Jet engine of Princeton's alumni drive...
During a two-hour meeting with the Governors, Carter discussed the West's criticisms of his efforts to block certain major water projects, push large-scale synthetic fuels development, and station a new MX mobile missile system in Nevada and Utah. He agreed that the Governors should have veto power over where synfuel plants are to be placed in their states, that a Westerner should sit on the proposed Energy Security Corporation if Congress approves its creation, and that the states should get federal help if large numbers of either synfuel or missile construction workers should flood particular localities...
...same way that Gladstone was fascinated by prostitutes. Gilmore used words like "tautologic" sometimes. He had a line about reincarnation and karma, which he ran on his girlfriend Nicole. Quite cold-bloodedly, Gilmore murdered two defenseless men-a motel clerk and a law school student working as a gas station attendant. He also made repeated efforts to persuade Nicole to commit suicide in order to join him in the great beyond...