Word: tors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When John Kennedy was [long pause, eyes lowered] taken from us, Norman Mailer wrote something that I have never forgotten and that went something like this [voice hushed]: Tor a while the country was ours. [Pause.] Now they've taken it away from us.' [Long pause, voice very low.] With your help, I want to take it back again...
...rice and soy beans - not needed to meet immediate demands. They can be in storage, in transit or in the lield ready to be harvested. Most food statistics use grain as the common measure because it is the major source of calories for man and provides the basic teed tor animals...
...enmeshed in a tricky fate that somewhat resembles the ending of Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust. There a Briton, made captive in the jungle by a fellow Briton, finds that he must spend the rest of his life reading Dickens aloud for his cap tor's delectation...
Critics. Senator Henry M. Jackson tor one, was not reassured. The message, he said, "lacks the sense of urgency and the sense of national commitment I believe are necessary to deal with the energy crisis." The underlying premise "that we will have continued and uninterrupted access to foreign sources of supply," Jackson feels is unjustified. S. David Freeman, director of a Ford Foundation study of energy problems, praised the end of the import quotas but found other flaws in the message: the President did not sufficiently explore foreign policy implications the possibility of oil stockpiling or even the current shortage...
After taking over as acting FBI director, Gray gave his approval of the wiretaps, and they were continued tor a month and a half of his tenure. The operation, which never uncovered any White House leaks, ended after the Supreme Court overruled Mitchell's wiretap policy last June. It declared that even in domestic security cases, a court order was necessary for wiretapping...