Word: working
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mathias is deeply concerned about the alienation of the progressive Republicans from the Administration. The Haynsworth defeat showed that the party must broaden its appeal, not narrow it, Mathias contends, and the Administration ought to work more closely with its own progressive Senators. "There is a whole group of us in this boat. We're in such a rock-bottom situation that if the Administration does not do business with us, every bill that comes along will be a Haynsworth. By God, we've been standing in the marketplace for nine months, and it's time...
Reporting on organized crime requires tenacity and a lot of patience. Months of work often prove completely unproductive, results rarely come rapidly. But last week an investigation into the mob's reappearance in Las Vegas had an unexpectedly immediate effect...
...Securities and Exchange Commission, appointment to the Maritime Commission, and the post of U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's (at the time an especially intriguing position for an Irish Catholic Kennedy). Though he ever after cherished the title of "Ambassador," the post did not work out well. He became fast friends with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, endorsed appeasement and returned home stunned and embittered after Hitler marched into Poland...
...tried to collect any gases that might be venting from beneath the lunar surface by holding a small can in a 6-in.-deep trench. AH the while, Conrad filled the airwaves with ho-ho-hos, dum-de-dum-dums, cackles and other sounds of pure enjoyment. "We could work out here for eight or nine hours," said Bean. "The work is no strain at all," agreed Conrad. The astronauts tried to compensate geologists for the loss of TV views by conscientiously describing everything they saw: glazed rocks at the centers of craters, soil built up at the base...
...astronauts, who would respond before a worldwide TV audience. Yet even before that briefing, it was clear that the mission of Apollo 12 had given man new confidence about his role in space. It has also proved, as Wernher von Braun said, that man can live and work on the moon, and that it can indeed be quite hospitable to visitors from earth...