Word: turn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serious omission. It does not mention a device known to the fraternity of electricians as the "blab-off." This consists of an electric cord of any length, with an on-off switch at one end, the other attached to the speaker in the set. With it you can turn off the sound as you wish, while the picture continues. Any electrician will install this thing for a trifling fee. The viewer then need not pay to the sponsor the "heavy tribute" of listening to commercials "in exchange for often dubious pleasure...
Exaggerated Virtue. State conventions may or may not be representative of voters' will, since they depend as much upon the strength of that will as upon the honesty of the party leaders. Vermont's system of town caucuses to choose delegates to the state convention, which in turn selects national convention delegates, is a comparatively direct process. But in many states, such as Illinois, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic fief, the decisions of convention delegates are directly dictated by party bosses...
...Thieu's fears, emphasizing that nothing has been held back from Saigon and that no amount of coffee-break talk has persuaded Hanoi's men to cease stonewalling. The U.S. is pledged to demand a seat for Saigon at the bargaining table, if and when the talks turn to the question of South Viet Nam's future...
...poor priest (Francisco Rabal) in turn-of-the-century Mexico is Christ-like in his purity and simplicity. Therein lies his undoing. When a local whore is pursued by the police, he hides her and is defrocked by the church for his act of charity. He gives away his raiment and walks barefoot, only to be mocked by villagers. Wherever he goes, "Nazarin"-as the villagers call him- becomes synonymous with trouble. Finally, he shuffles off to oblivion in the custody of police...
...military and State Department people told him that the Saigon government and army were about to collapse--his reply was, that I refuse to be the first President to lose a war. This seems the only plausble reason why a man who campaigned as a peace candidate would turn around and become a war escalator...