Word: surmountable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Largely because blacks knew that he had an excellent record on civil rights, they rallied to his side after he made his worst gaffe of the campaign, saying some kind words about "ethnic purity" in neighborhoods. Black support helped Carter to surmount that crisis quickly. He took many blacks as counselors, notably Urban League Executive Director Vernon Jordan, and Congressman Andrew Young, who represents a mostly white Atlanta district. When asked recently to whom he owed anything. Carter replied: "Andy Young." The list stopped there. Carter has promised to appoint blacks to Cabinet or sub-Cabinet jobs; if they...
...have been built that allow the wheelchair-bound to roll themselves into the base of the memorial, where they can enter the wide doorway of a newly installed elevator, ride up to the rotunda and get a closeup view of Lincoln's statue. That enables the handicapped to surmount what had been for them a barrier to the rotunda, the great apron of stairs that lead to the memorial...
...anyone managed to surmount these natural obstacles, there would be little enough to spy on. Mum might be cooking up a batch of her special pea soup (secret ingredient: sea salt), Dad might be settled back with some favorite reading material-science-fiction novels and comics, mostly. The whole family could be gathered around the table, enjoying a favorite meal of eggs and chips and larking about, hitting Dad for "requests"-everything from That Doggy in the Window to songs composed on the spot, to order, for whatever child does the asking. Dad may be working on the score...
...small towns and get up teams to compete against one another in a series of games and races that are cunningly devised to make the participants look like idiots-generally through the simple expedient of putting grease on one or more of the obstacles they are called to surmount. These revels are surrounded by a hokey Superbowl atmosphere-bands, cheerleaders, a team of "sportscasters" who "analyze" the action and conduct inane interviews with the participants. It is all awful, as attempts to turn the sadistic impulse into comedy always...
These banks are big enough to surmount the shock of default, but some banks outside the city-most of them small-could be in bad trouble. A federal survey found that 53 of the nation's 4,700 national banks hold New York City bonds equal to 40% or more of their capital. Nine of them would probably become insolvent and have to merge with other banks, and 44 could get by with long-term loans from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. or the Federal Reserve System. Other Government studies found that 62 of the 9,964 state-chartered...