Word: tics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Viet Nam's President Diem in 1963; urging that Washington's Brookings Institution be fire-bombed as a diversionary tactic to cover a raid to seize some politically damaging documents; leaking information to LIFE for a story in 1970 that helped defeat Maryland's Demoera tic Senator Joseph Tydings; proposing that demonstrators posing as antiwar activists disrupt the funeral services for J. Edgar Hoover in May 1972, which would have outraged Hoover's many supporters and hurt McGovern...
...Alaskan oil pipeline, deregulation of natural-gas prices at the wellhead - a step that would surely force prices sharply upward - and the funding of further research into coal gasification and other new energy sources. Finally, Nixon urged Congress to take action on a whole series of domes tic programs, including the better-schools bill and the better-communities bill, two revenue-sharing measures that would transfer from federal to local authorities much of the decision-making authority in federal school and community-development programs...
Wilson has been a steady performer on the Radcliffe pinball circuit all season long. His records include high ball and high game on "Flying Carpet," high game on "Swinger" and a phenomenal high game of 524,000 on "Fan-tas-tic...
...brief, turgid scenes demonstrates Whalen's emptiness, a quality that is never in doubt; nothing in the book offers any insight into the author's reasons for pursuing such an unrewarding project. One of Kosinski's few gestures toward literary excellence amounts to a stylistic tic: his repeated use of Grim Bits from Mother Nature to give symbolic weight to Whalen's flounders. The grotesque baobab tree, we learn, seems to have its branches in the earth and its roots in the air; a certain species of African bird can soar gracefully, but nearly always crashes...
...Harvard rugby club playing most of the game in Brown territory and forcing the Bruins to play without two of its men for the last 12 minutes of the game nevertheless settled for a 6-6 tic in muddy conditions Saturday in Cambridge...