Word: won
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Amos and Andy, and Gracie Allen, George's partner and wife for four decades: almost all the great comedians of the '30s and '40s are gone. But Burns, who is 83, is still around to enjoy the applause. His first dramatic role, in The Sunshine Boys, won him an Academy Award, and that brought him the part of the Title Character in Oh, God! in 1978. His newest movie, Just You and Me, Kid, places him opposite Brooke Shields, 14. Last week he was on location in Manhattan, where he, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg were playing...
...that is rather like saying that if it were not for overeating, fat people would have no difficulty losing weight. The fact is that the nation's energy and inflation struggles are hopelessly intertwined, and neither can be won alone. Earlier this spring, for instance, the Administration confidently insisted that the rise in food prices would slow sharply during the year. Though many economists still believe this, the Agriculture Department no longer seems so confident just where food prices will end up, and last week conceded that prices would probably climb by about 11% during the year, just about...
There is now a Girl Scout badge for proficiency in roller and ice skating, and at the Pan-Am Games in Puerto Rico earlier this summer there were 16 roller events -ten of which were won by Americans...
...able to choose from smoked salmon, caviar and sliced sausages. Drinks include hot tea, vodka, or Coca-Cola and its orange-flavored cousin, Fanta, dispensed by strolling vendors through a tube from a backpack tank. (Pepsi-Cola has been available in the U.S.S.R. for six years, but Coke won the Olympic bidding.) Not to be outdone in the soda race, the Soviets have invented their own Olympic drink, Druzhba, a cranberry-apple concoction...
Even when things again went badly for capitalism, the left could not capitalize on its opportunities. The anti-Establishment was right about the Viet Nam War; it proved a conflict that could not be won, or lost, with honor. But radical rhetoric kept linking dislike of the war with condemnation of the whole American system. Perspectives were blurred; hard-liners compared the U.S. to Hitler's Germany and listeners turned away. Today, as Jimmy Carter acknowledges the country faces recession, popular distrust of big corporations and the existence of a sizable underclass. And still most Americans can imagine...