Word: surely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...workaday mechanics of transcribing his own tapes and shorthand notes to the responsibility of passing judgments on his own facts, he worked alone. He insists that he did not hire professional researchers because he wanted the force and conviction of a single viewpoint and, besides, that he was not sure whether the book would make enough money to justify the expense.* He held 267 interviews, and the Kennedys' early stamp of approval gave him easy access to virtually all sources. Indeed, of all the major Government figures involved, only Lyndon Johnson refused to give Manchester an interview, instead wrote...
...school to look at you. You're here to learn." Schuyler High will even accept potential reform-school candidates. One such student was recommended for enrollment by the Albany police after he had stolen a gun, 800 rounds of ammunition, and had robbed two homes. "Sure we'll take him," said Becker, who promptly sent the boy to work off some of his aggressions under the supervision of the school's janitor, washing windows, shoveling sidewalks, sweeping floors. The youth is now completing his junior year at Schuyler and learning to be an electrician...
Symbolic Value. To be sure, there are still plenty of priests and ministers who see as still valid the traditional rationales for exemption: the clergy performs a vital function for society, and those who are dedicated to preaching God's peace should not have their hands stained with the blood of human war. Jesuit Biblical Scholar John McKenzie argues that mustering ministers "would destroy the symbolic value that the clergyman ought to have. He is to represent in this world that man whose mission was to die for others and not to kill them." Even so, there appears...
...adventures," Millie bobs her hair, raises her hemline and buys a string of beads. After peering down at her torso, she flutters her eyelids at the camera, whereupon the screen flashes a title, silent-movie style: "Gee, I wish my fronts weren't so big. They sure ruin the line of your beads." It is the first of many slices of cutesie-pie proffered by Director George Roy Hill, including innumerable jokes about the restless, breastless flappers, and oh-you-kidding dialogue indicating that "by jingo" and "gotcha" are supposed to be terrif...
...sure as hell would...