Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...logic. At times, however, the feminist themes do turn reductonist. During one of Harry's visits home, the teenage daughter is wondering whether to take carpentry or ballet as a school elective. Her mother is all for woodwork as opposed to Harry, who advocates that "any girl with swell legs should take ballet." One is left with the lingering suspicion that May could only have married Harry to provide the book with an unsavory male presence and the kids with an unsuitable role model. Aside from Quayle, the story contains only meetings with abridgeable--and abridged--men, in contrast...
...have a dream," King went on, relentlessly shouting down the thunderous swell of the crowd's applause, "that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character...
...taken his case to the country, hoping to arouse popular support with a televised speech that claimed he was being framed by the Justice Department and, by implication, Nixon himself. The Republican women in his Los Angeles audience cheered him to the rafters, but no nationwide ground swell of public opinion developed to lift him high. "Everything was downhill after L.A.," says Marsh Thomson, Agnew's press aide. "The point was driven home to him that he was 'dead.' The limb had been sawed...
...seats in the House of Representatives are redistributed every decade to reflect population shifts, the political consequences should be significant. New York might lose eight or more of its House seats, and Pennsylvania and Ohio several apiece. Conversely, the Sunbelt's numerical clout on Capitol Hill will surely swell. California might be assigned an additional four seats in Congress, Texas seven more, and Florida's delegation could expand from...
After the frontier rolled out to the Pacific, the undertow pulled it back to swell the cities. Then the movement reversed again, spilling millions into newly created suburbs. Meanwhile, the American countryside has been enjoying a resurgence. The 1980 census shows that after a decade of stagnation, rural areas grew 11.1% in population in the 1970s, to nearly 60 million people. The ruburbs fall into a demographic shadowland, at the far edge of the suburbs and the near fringe of farm country, where no statistics establish their health. What seems clear is that more and more city dwellers are fleeing...