Word: whole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into conceding crucial rights by threatening a march on Washington and resistance to the draft. Relatively inactive for many years before his death at 90 last week in Manhattan, Randolph seemed remote and perhaps irrelevant to younger civil rights leaders, but there are scarcely any nonviolent tactics in the whole arsenal of protest that he did not employ...
...next night, McLemore got his captors to take him to a phone. He called Everitt and said that the whole trip had actually been a bungled dope run planned in advance through a contact in Houston. The pilots were to pick up 1,500 Ibs. of marijuana and fly it to Lafayette, La. McLemore said he had written a bad check for $100,000 to his captors, and "this is probably the only thing keeping me alive." He indicated he would try to escape. "Just keep your fingers crossed and I'm going...
With one hand lifting up the falling sky, with the other holding up a glinting scimitar, by one lightning stroke he shakes the whole earth." Thus, in language that might have made Mao Tse-tung blush, does one popular song in North Korea stress the godlike omnipotence of President Kim II Sung, 67. As shrewd and tough as he is vainglorious, Kim since 1948 has been the dictator of a belligerent, doctrinaire state that for sheer xenophobia is rivaled only by Albania inside the Communist world. In pursuit of his goal of reuniting the Korean peninsula under his rule...
...with them or somebody else will." Thus Levi's has already sold some 15 million pairs of new, wider jeans "cut to fit a man's build with a little more room in the seat and thigh," as the ads say. The jeans have spawned a whole rack of clothes for the aging male body, ravaged by roast beef and gravity...
...absorbed, statisticians insist, at the appalling average rate of 29 hours per week per citizen. The cash flows in. A minute of network prime-time advertising can sell for up to $140,000, or enough to pay the salary of seven or eight high school English teachers for a whole year...