Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...despite the fact that they still emit "Who, me?" disclaimers for public consumption. Both are concerned at having launched their campaigns so early in the game, since relentless exposure over a long period can be deadly. But circumstances forced their hands. In Romney's case, it was a tide of favorable publicity and felicitous polls in the aftermath of his 570,000-vote third-term victory last November. Nixon was prematurely jolted into action by Reagan's sudden rise as a potential challenger for the conservative support that the former Vice President badly needs...
...about whether the establishment of barbershops should be permitted. As a storyteller, Laxness shares with Brazil's Jorge Amado (TIME, May 28, 1965) an infectious zest for the eccentricities of ordinary people and a genial affection for those resolute fish in humankind who dare to swim against the tide...
...resultant economic dialogue has lured some 500 Western firms to invest over $800 million in Eastern Europe, and every year the tide of Western tourists increases. West Germany's new Christian Democrat-Socialist coalition regime has made limited new East-West moves possible. While there is not yet any end in sight for Germany's geographical division, most East European governments have dropped the stultifying position that nothing can be discussed unless West Germany acknowledges East Germany as a sovereign state. This year Rumania defied the Kremlin to recognize West Germany-and both Hungary and Czechoslovakia want...
...windy hills, the Austrian com mander surveyed the landscape of de feat. "We may need two years to turn the tide," he said sadly. "They are so consistent...
...tide of freedom-welfare seeking efforts among peoples of the Asia-Pacific community is an eloquent proof or their mounting realization that an extreme doctrinism, of one kind or another, is good only for a few fanatics but doesn't really help the people very much...