Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with too many celebrities: a little jumpy and voluble. A woman asked privately, "Did Theodore Roosevelt draw in this many in 1902?" [Answer: No.] A young visitor from Long Island saw a crop duster circling the cotton fields near the new school where the meeting would take place, and thought it might be a Government plane looking for Communists...
Scenes like these were endlessly repeated in New York City's black and Hispanic ghettos, as shocked and angry owners of some 2,000 stores counted their blackout losses and thought hard about sticking, or fleeing the battle zone. One of the worst hit was Fedco Foods Corp., the nation's largest black-owned retailer, which had eight supermarkets looted. By last week, six were back in operation, as were several other well-capitalized, chain-owned markets and high-volume discount stores. But hundreds of tiny shops-most of them mom-and-pop operations that barely scraped...
...tried to brand cattle, herd sheep and, noted an observer, "had a go at everything." But what the third son of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy really wants to have a go at is salvaging Uncle John's World War II patrol boat, PT109. The boat is thought to lie in 1,400 ft. of water off the Solomon Islands, where it was sunk by a Japanese destroyer in 1943. J.F.K.'s heroic part in the survival of his crew became a legend that contributed notably to his political career. When young Michael learned of an Australian...
...Medici-that absolute power is absolutely delightful. Rubens was one of the greatest political artists who ever lived, but he had nothing to do with our modern idea of the engage painter: he was no Courbet, but utterly a man of the right. There is no trace of speculative thought in his elaborate allegories. He believed in monarchy, Catholic dogma and the divine right of kings. Fatherless after the age of nine, he reveled in serving strong, authoritarian men. Vitality burgeoning in the midst of a peace guaranteed by authority-such was Rubens' master image. And although...
...Life is unfair," John Kennedy observed at a press conference one day in 1962. The thought had a certain stoic grace about it: its truth was brutally confirmed the following year in Dallas. Life is unfair. Kennedy was talking about citizens' military obligations, about the restive Army reservists who were being held on active duty even after the Berlin crisis had subsided. Now Jimmy Carter has brought up the unfairness doctrine to explain his policy on abortion. Somehow the dictum comes out this time with a mean-spirited edge, like something from the lips of Dickens' Mr. Podsnap...