Word: turn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fred Gwynne and Abby Dalton star as Marshall and Augusta Anderson, parents of eight children, in turn-of-the-century New York City. This is a sneak preview of a comedy series that NBC may include in its 1970-71 season...
...tour seemed to be little more than a welcome gesture of reconciliation with Western European leaders who felt neglected by the Johnson Administration's preoccupation with Asia. The new U.S. President had no way of knowing that De Gaulle's political demise was imminent but, as it turned out, Nixon's timing was lucky. With De Gaulle's departure, Europe's statesmen must reappraise their direction. Nixon's meetings with the British, the Germans, the Belgians and the Italians, which seemed perfunctory at the time, may now turn out to have prepared...
...weeks immediately preceding the election, small businessmen staged two strikes over the tax issue?the first in their history. Big businessmen, on the other hand, were concerned about shrinking profits and the "participation" that De Gaulle had promised their workers following the chaos of last spring. The workers, in turn, resented both inflation and the higher taxes that De Gaulle had imposed in order to save the franc last fall. De Gaulle had juggled France's finances in an effort to satisfy both workers and businessmen; he had succeeded in pleasing neither and frightening both...
...member of the Harvard Class of 1936 and the Harvard Business School Class of 1938. When I was in college I was of a considerable "liberal" turn of mind myself and I think that there is something wrong with young people who look around and see the sort of condition the world is in and not want to do something about it. I believe in the almost permissiveness towards these young people as far as their expressing their opinions and attempting to back these opinions with action consistent with the rights of others to have differing opinions...
...First, the artist brushed his design onto mulberry paper. Then the drawing was glued to a cherry-wood block. Next, two engravers incised the design upon the block. Several black-and-white prints were made from it, and these were then glued to other blocks that were incised in turn so that each could be used to print a single color. In the early 18th century, print-makers were largely limited to various vegetable-based inks of red and yellow. By the 1740s, greens, blues and grays had been added to the spectrum. The artist Suzuki Harunobu is credited with...