Word: thread
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indeed be difficult to "thread a moving needle," but it takes a person of incredible naiveté to imagine that a woman can avoid violence by simply stepping out of the way. Given the choice, most women would submit to a rapist rather than face being disfigured or even murdered. Either way, the victim loses and she gets the added treat of reading letters written by men who either have no understanding of the problem or sympathize with the rapist...
...travel becomes the American's defining experience and mobility his distinctive characteristic, and the nation's endless system of roads becomes the intricate network through which some elusive goal, some beckoning fortune is pursued. The highway is a slender thread between a worn past and an alluring future. And after a while, after enough stops along the way, the endpoints of past and future, of Detroit and New Orleans and Seattle and Baltimore, fade away, and the unfolding of the road itself becomes the important event. And so, perhaps it is only while traveling, in a state of flux...
...Napoleon knew that man can't thread a moving needle. When a woman complained to the Emperor that she had been raped by one of his officers, he handed her his sword and asked her to sheathe it while he moved the scabbard...
...drama form a remarkable profile of America. There is Frank Wills, the black guard who found the tape on the lock of a Watergate building door and called the police. Reporters Bob Woodward, an Ivy Leaguer, and Carl Bernstein, a dropout from the University of Maryland, enlarged that slender thread into the picture of corruption. Judge John Sirica, the Italian American and old welterweight, applied common sense and created a new sense of justice. Senator Sam Ervin, with a little help from St. Paul and Shakespeare, provided the best civics lesson in 50 years...
They still argue in the Washington clubs that it was an accident. Time and time again, we hung by a thread, and only luck uncovered this monstrous assault upon the Constitution. Maybe so. But it is interesting that all through our history those "threads" have held us together. One suspects that if the Siricas and Rodinos had not been there, others just as clear-sighted and determined would have been in their places...