Word: twists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only twist added to the familiar punishment v. deterrence arguments came in the scathing amendment proposed by death-penalty foe Senator Har old Hughes-that executions be broadcast on radio and television. "If Senators believe there is a deterrent effect inherent in the death penalty," Hughes reasoned mordantly, "then my amendment will provide a way to greatly increase this deterrence." Hughes' amendment was defeated...
...district where Republicanism is considered next to godliness, the Democrats emphasized how far the idols had fallen. In one campaign ad, a metalworker complained about the low income tax that Nixon paid. Republicans were also disturbed by Nixon's meager church contributions. With an adroit twist of the political knife, Democrat VanderVeen said that Nixon should resign so that ever-popular Jerry Ford would become President. If Nixon did not leave office voluntarily, said VanderVeen, impeachment should go forward. POLITICS
...plates with John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King on them on their mantles. They're on a slope and the back ends have to be held up by rickety-looking stilts. Let one grey weathered house stand for the rest: Inside tall narrow stairs twist back up around a wide chimney. The room is hot and is smoky and full of that sweet sickening smell--like burning beans--peculiar to dirty houses with wood stoves. The plaster is cracking off the walls, revealing in places an old wallpaper from finer days, repeating and repeating...
Clumsy Tactics. The reaction with in the Soviet Union of course was quite different. Prior to his arrest and deportation, Soviet papers were full of letters from citizens insisting that the authorities do just that. After his banishment, the letter-writing campaign continued with a new twist. Demands for his punishment were replaced by expressions of gratitude that Kremlin leaders had up rooted "the traitor." Only twelve hours after Solzhenitsyn's deportation had been announced on Moscow Radio, Izvestia was able to print a letter purportedly from a reader in Baku, although mail usually takes ten days to reach Moscow...
...diving competition featured a rather unique twist. After Dave English captured the one-meter competition, tallying more than 300 points for the first time this season, only he and teammate John Zakotnik performed on the three-meter board...