Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recalled that he had promised his wife Susan, during his 1961 campaign, that his next term as mayor would be his last. Susan's death from cancer last year, Wagner said, had reinforced his determination to spend more time with his two sons, one "on the very threshold of manhood, the other soon approaching that state." Beside him on the City Hall dais stood Duncan, 18, a prep-school senior, in a sports coat and chinos, and Robert Jr., 21, who will graduate from Harvard this week, in a dark suit. "They have a claim upon me for companionship...
...Communist world a rallying cry, to create dozens of Dominican Communist martyrs and to turn an increasing number of rebels against the U.S." Said New York Timesman Tad Szulc: "The U.S. finds itself identified with a military junta that is widely hated, and it may be standing on the threshold of a violent showdown with the highly popular rebel movement...
...first marriage. By normal star standards, he is a most relaxed, easygoing man. But the frustrations do build, and he works them out on a dizzying number of interests: scuba diving, fishing, boating, drums, weights, photography, flying, astronomy, and currently singing and playing the guitar. Confesses Carson: "My threshold of boredom...
...largest version, was purchased three years later by the Philadelphia Museum of Art for $110,000. By comparison, the British buy (on which Cézanne worked from 1897 to 1906) seems sketchy, leading some critics to call it crude, while other experts see it as perched on the threshold of cubism...
...Luther, signs show that a renewal is taking shape in Christianity. "There is a kind of pre-Reformation spirit running through the church today," says the Rev. Don Benedict, director of the experiment-minded Chicago City Missionary Society. "It looks as though Christians of today stand on the threshold of great changes in Christendom," adds the Rev. Roger Lloyd, vice-dean of England's Winchester Cathedral. "The prospect of a new Reformation is clearly in sight...