Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the once miserable Japanese farmer, who traditionally sold his daughters into prostitution to tide the family over bad times, now equips his wife with gleaming appliances and works his tiny fields with a motor plow. In the big cities, housemaids, who 20 years ago lived in something approaching involuntary servitude, are now apt to carry a transistor radio tucked away in their handbags, may even be putting a few dollars a month into mutual funds...
...late last year the Fed sped to the aid of the bankers. In a move aimed mainly at stemming the tide of "hot money" flowing into higher-interest havens overseas, the Fed declared that after Jan. 1, banks could raise savings rates from 3% to 3.5% and even pay 4% on funds deposited for a year or more...
...rented hotel ballroom, .his beautiful wife is entering a suite in the same hotel to cheer Avery, who has twisted his neck severely by throwing back his head in a Rooseveltian campaign laugh. Duggan bitterly re-creates the scene: the pink, passive hero, the innocent back rub, the tide of passion...
...ever lived. "Grr, grr," he would roar, and then crouch in the branches of an oak, "baring his teeth and pounding his chest with his fists." At the beach, Uncle was always the engineer who mobilized the children to build a fortress of sand against the rising tide: "More sand for the outer defenses! Stop the moat from flooding! Hurry!" Uncle also happened to be Winston Churchill, and upon this familial foundation John Spencer Churchill-a painter specializing in murals-has erected the scaffolding of his autobiography entitled A Churchill Canvas...
...David Brinkley's Journal" took a half-hour look last night at the so-called "rising conservative tide" among American college students and concluded that the liberals still outnumber the conservatives nearly 2 to 1, while the politically apathetic outnumber both groups "approximately...