Word: threat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people watching television was during the 1951 World Series. Updike says, "We were outraged and amused by this kind of buffoon. Nixon seemed that way too. From the safety of Harvard, it looked like an aberration in American politics--a subject in which we had little interest." McCarthy's threat to Harvard began to disappear as the Class of '54 was leaving. Concerns of the student body returned to subjects from which its collective attention had never strayed very...
...area now say the University and the community were much more separate. "You could just look at some one from a distance of 50 yards and say town or gown, except in the Wursthaus, where they seemed to come together," Shapiro says. By the time of their graduation, the threat of fighting in a war had disappeared and they left from Cambridge confident that their past was merely a prologue of better times ahead...
Living in prison for six years under constant threat of death wonderfully concentrated Spenkelink's mind. He spent hours reading the Bible and such works as the mystic prophecies of Edgar Cayce...
...against both points. Califano contends that hospitals braked their price increases only to counter the threat of Government controls, and predicts: "The day the Congress stops working on this problem, hospital rates will take off like a rocket headed for the moon." As for unfairness, Califano replies that, unlike other industries, hospitals operate in a "virtually noncompetitive system that says spend, spend, spend...
...deciding to do something very similar to his person. To compound his difficulties, a rather schizzy young woman (Janet Margolin) has mysteriously taken up residence in his apartment (her story of a mixed-up sublease does not wash awfully well). He is also in receipt of a death threat written in ancient Hebrew-not at all the form in which the Government generally drafts its pink slips...