Word: suggester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Intriguing, isn't it, how far we've come in 200 years? You say, "Some critics suggest that if he were elected, Carter's religious life might intrude on his acts as President." Two hundred years ago voters would have assumed that a leader's religious life would intrude on his acts, and in fact would have been terribly disturbed if it didn...
...busing revived, Ford astonishingly told Kentucky newsmen that the Justice Department had not decided where to intervene, that it might even be in Louisville, where an appeal is pending. When a Levi aide denied that Louisville had ever been under active consideration, the President's remark seemed to suggest that he was using the issue to gain political advantage in a crucial primary. Moreover, the Justice Department, trying to live down its Watergate-acquired reputation as a political extension of the White House, once again gave the impression of dancing to a presidential tune...
...role of a faithful wife who must contend with advances from another man. The role is "en costume," notes Sylvia primly, and "the audience will have to wait a full 40 minutes before I give in." Viewers of future Kristel movies may be kept waiting too, but the titles suggest that it won't be a fruitless vigil. After finishing Femme, she will film The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars, a murder mystery featuring Peter Fonda, Michael York and Orson Welles. Later she will star in Madame Bovary, which will be directed by Hugo Claus, 47, the father...
...valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia. It was during this period that man is believed to have developed advanced writing techniques, built the first true cities and brought metallurgy to the stage necessary to produce bronze. Now there is evidence to suggest that a cultural flowering may have occurred earlier-and thousands of miles farther east. Archaeologists excavating sites at Ban Chiang, a small farming village in northeastern Thailand, have found sophisticated bronze artifacts dating back to about...
Peaceful Life. While there is no evidence that the ancient inhabitants of Thailand built cities that could compare to those of Bronze Age Mesopotamia, their sophisticated implements suggest that they had a high standard of living. Artifacts unearthed at the dig show that the early settlers grew rice, raised animals such as pigs and chickens" and probably believed in an afterlife. The findings also suggest that Ban Chiang's residents lived a peaceful existence. The archaeologists found few weapons of war -and no arrow points in any of the 126 intact skeletons unearthed...