Word: utters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the people, but with interest groups far outside the increasingly angry and nationalistic consensus. The largest landowners and old-family capitalists still hold the balance of domestic economic power. The American exporters and AID maintain overall control of the economy, and of any government seeking to avoid utter poverty and bankruptcy. Finally, the reactionary and fabulously oversized military presents any elected government with a virtually unmovable obstacle to genuine social change...
Acquaintance with Romney's political allies, aides, and family leaves no doubt about his utter sincerity--or his simple-mindedness. At every step in his seemingly well-planned political career, he has claimed, and there is every reason to think he has really believed, that he had not decided to take the next one. He came to the decision to run for Governor in 1962 only after a well-publicized day of fasting and prayer. The fact that it was well publicized and that there were plenty of Romney-for-Governor buttons available in Bloomfield Hills the next day only...
...that it will need more time to move than De Gaulle wants to give and that, if necessary, it will stall and haggle to get it. Principally drafted by former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who two weeks ago called De Gaulle's view of the NATO alliance "utter nonsense," the reply's first version was so strong that Lyndon Johnson winced at it, sent it back to be given a milder tone...
...arranged, the Indian government protects them against foreign imports by high tariffs and quota restrictions. Says Charat Ram, 49, whose combine of sewing-machine, refrigerator, air-compressor, textile, and chemical companies makes him India's eighth largest manufacturer: "You cannot make a loss unless you are an utter fool. We are absolutely in a seller's market...
...feel that Berryman is daring to say something oceanic, then returning to the concrete with a thump or a blast. And the man is absolute master of his materials, which points less toward facility in the use of stanzas, rhymes, and meters--like Auden's--than toward an utter control over all the possible sounds and meanings of each word...