Word: tween
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most, for example, favored repeal of the Jones Act, which specifies that only ships flying the U.S. flag can haul cargo be tween U.S. ports. That is a high-priced concession to maritime unions and American shipbuilders that hikes shipping costs. Most of the economists also favored abolition of numerous Agriculture Department "marketing orders." These, in the past, have sustained high prices on navel oranges and Florida tomatoes, as well as other foodstuffs, by limiting sales or blocking imports...
...Castel Gandolfo last week were four Ottawa Indians outfitted in full tribal regalia. The four presented Paul with an Ottawa war bonnet, which he obligingly put on. Then one of the Indians, Alvina Anderson, proposed a quid pro quo. "I asked the Pope to pray for peace be tween the U.S. and the Indians," she said later. "I told him that the U.S. had not honored a lot of our treaties." Paul's reply went unrecorded...
...things with a print that are the despair of professional developers: his ability to bring out every nuance of tone within a shadow, gray overlapping black, so that each detail of form is both implicit and simultaneously present, is astounding. The difference of quality be tween an Adams print and one made by a studio from an Adams negative is just as evident as the difference between a first and a tenth edition of an etching. It is the responsiveness of his printing, combined with his long wait at the view finder, that gives Adams' handmade landscapes their unique...
Weathermen issued increasingly urgent warnings to residents in "Tornado Alley," that vast stretch of plains lying be tween the Appalachians and the Rockies and sweeping from Georgia and Alabama up to Canada. When the storms hit in midweek, the tornado fun nels were twirling at 200 m.p.h...
...charges against him would probably be dropped. That, presumably, would also be the case if Ehrlichman pleaded guilty to one federal charge in return for testifying against the President and former White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman. At the moment, there is no sign of a rift be tween Nixon and Ehrlichman. Yet ultimately, Ehrlichman may be pushed into a position where he can harm the person on whom he is now counting for help - the President...