Word: support
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They've made their decision. The only way to show our serious support is a boycott by the entire House," Squire said...
Robert Howard, a biologist at the Marine Biological Labs at Woods Hole, said the Department of the Interior doesn't understand that the fisheries are worth far more than the oil under George's Bank. "If developed and drilled all at one time, the oil from the bank would support the U.S. for only five to eight days," he said...
...Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.) issued statements in support of the rally although neither was able to attend the activities...
...only thing great about Katherine Graham portrayed here is her ability to create "myth that lived on as history, ad truth"--in other words, to lie and get away with it. How does the author support such an audacious accusation? Davis disdains hard facts and instead relies on her own presumptuous brand of psychology. "Once a widow, always a widow" Davis's primer seems to say; and Graham's pruported insecurities are accordingly traced to her prolonged grief over husband Philip's suicide. She plays the party line because she craves the approval of her Presidents...
...blame for Graham's supposed servility on one event, however traumatic, seems risky at best--irresponsible at worst. And Davis cannot produce any convincing evidence that Graham does dance to the Administration's beat. The Washington Post did smugly support Johnson's Vietnam policy on its editorial pages, but so did countless other newspapers. Calling Graham servile because The Post supported LBJ's Vietnam policy is patently absurd. Nor does Davis propound any solid evidence that Graham acutally bends her news coverage toward the pleasures of her "father figure" in the White House...