Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Registration Issue read "University Plans No Drastic Changes To Meet World Crisis; '54 Should Escape Draft Call." And they did. No one in the Class of '54 died on a Korean battlefield. In fact, George S. Abrams writes in the 25th Anniversary Report of his class, "The worst effect of the Korean War for most of '54 may have been the time wasted taking non-substantive military courses...
...crash was the worst in U.S. aviation history. The worst previous accident occurred eight months ago when a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 collided with a private aircraft near the San Diego airport. That collision killed 144 people. Worldwide, the toll had been exceeded only in the collision of two jumbo Boeing 747 airliners on the ground at Tenerife in the Canary Islands in March 1977, killing 583 people, and the crash of another DC-10 near Paris in 1974, in which 346 died...
...soon see the bill never come to a vote. Says Massachusetts Republican Margaret Heckler, a member of the House Agriculture Committee: "Inflation is the nation's No. 1 enemy, and things just cannot stay the same for easy subsidies. The sugar bill represents the legislative process at its worst...
...next two years were glorious for Russell and Mimi. Fleet Street is the home of some of the world's worst journalism, and also some of the best. But most important, says Baker, the intense competition often or twelve newspapers jostling for attention in London produced a kind of reporting in which, because everyone had the facts, interpretation was prized...
...have been ambushed by change, "Graham has become the only familiar American paragon left; the last hero of the old American righteousness." Through the racial convulsions of the late '50s and '60s, and then Viet Nam, writes Frady, "there finally began to hang over the country, worst of all, forebodings of some actual loss of our own native rectitude, of America's constitutional decency. Perhaps no one is finally so dear as he who returns and restores to us assurances of our goodness. And that was to become Graham's ultimate service as a prophet...