Word: whole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They have even begun to follow the tribulations of a whole new generation: young Teddy's cancer, David's drug problems and Joe's driving accidents. Now, the Senator from Massachusetts is reasserting the family's claim to the White House...
Sheer coincidence, said White House aides: Carter just happened to receive right then assurances from Phnom-Penh and Hanoi that the expanded aid would actually get through to hungry Cambodians. Well, maybe. But Carter's whole week demonstrated that he is acutely aware of the powers of an incumbent President and determined to use them in his contest with Kennedy for the Democratic nomination. Some other samples of his new assertiveness...
...skeptically belittled Brezhnev's promise to withdraw what she called "a few tanks and troops," Pravda promptly labeled her a "bellicose lady" and scoffed that "she tried on Winston Churchill's trousers but they don't fit." Bonn, meanwhile, was put on notice that its whole Ostpolitik of seeking peaceful relations with the East would be in jeopardy. Calling the missile issue "literally a touchstone," the Soviet news agency TASS warned that Bonn's inclination to go along with the NATO plan was in "clear conflict with the officially declared objectives of the German Federal Republic...
Webern's whole life, Craft commented, was ''a search for the strongest, the most all-abiding rules.'' He believed that only in ''unprecedented shackles'' could ''complete freedom'' be found. He pursued the search in his lifelong veneration of Schoenberg, in his ardent religiosity and in his rigid domestic discipline, which included aligning the pencils on his desk according to length and color. He even carried it into the pages of Mein Kampf. Although Schoenberg and other Jewish colleagues were ostracized, although his own music was denounced...
...Schmidt says, adding quickly that "if they did, we'd be happy to do something." Thomas Wolanin, staff director of the Senate Subcommittee on Post-secondary Education, says that his staff "assumes that women's colleges have no unique problems different from independent colleges or higher education as a whole...