Word: therein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insistence forced both parties to endorse plans for an open, state-wide primary -- and therein lies the key to Roosevelt's comeback. He has shown that in many ways he is an instinctively good politician. Unlike O'Connor, who often appears haggard on the speaker's platform from lack of sleep, FDR Jr. is able to stay unruffled by dozing off as his campaign moves from one stump to the next. He has turned up some of the best issues of the campaign, including the embarrassing facts about O'Connor's anti-rent control stand in the state legislature...
...Kremlin's "Bed and Breakfast plus Extras" sign, surely exclaims to his faithful servant, Sancho Couve de Murville, over the wondrous castle before them, and says that surely De Gaulle must receive tributes from the lord of the castle, and in turn pay homage to the beautiful lady therein...
...allow private dams on the Snake because they would affect water flow and power output at nine downstream plants in which the Government has invested $1.67 billion. That, ruled the court, "would mean that the existence of one federal dam in a waterway would require that any future dams therein be federally constructed. There is no such requirement...
...this collection of stories. Author Porter has superb natural gifts. She has irony, she has imagery, she has language. "Her style," wrote Glenway Wescott, "is perfection. It just covers its subject matter as if it were green grass growing on a lawn." Above all, she can think-and therein lies her principal problem. She sees her characters less as people who must live than as problems to be solved. There is too little warmth and softness in her art. But hardness endures, and six or eight of her stories will endure like diamonds...
...palace "has bought off eight more Deputies at the cost of Cabinet posts," snapped George Papandreou. In fact, if any buying of votes had been done, it was done by George Papandreou himself during his 15 months as Premier-and therein lies the essence of one of his successor's thorniest problems. Solidifying the popularity he had won throueh his oratory, Papandreou boosted minimum salaries of teachers and civil servants by 12%, increased social security benefits to workers and -in a land where 51% of the electorate lives on the farm-raised farm subsidies from $40 million...