Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Patronage jobs doled out by the city and county number not in the hundreds, but in the thousands and probably the tens of thousands. Johnny, a precinct captain in the mayor's ward, estimates that of the more than 35,000 employees the city hires directly, 80 per cent got...
The U.S. income tax code is a labyrinth of 40,000 pages that provide employment for tens of thousands of tax accountants and tax lawyers. More important, the system, which last year raised $120.7 billion from levies on personal incomes, 42.1% of the Government's revenues, is laced with...
In the hamlet of Plains, Ga., where the jungle heat of August still hung on, Jimmy Carter was tanned and rested from his long midsummer idyl and eager to go. When the word came that the debates were on?that he would be able to meet Gerald Ford face to...
Soon, however, violence broke out elsewhere. Black youths pelted passing trains with stones. Some tried to prevent the 230,000 blacks from Soweto who work in Johannesburg from going to their jobs. A key railroad switching station was sabotaged to prevent the approximately 100 daily commuter trains from leaving Soweto...
"So this is the little lady who made this big war," said Abraham Lincoln. The President was meeting the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin for the first time, more than a decade after the book's publication in 1852. It was not simply a patronizing remark. Harriet...