Word: yet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...church dissent something of a puzzle. Explained a Vatican source: "In the Pope's native Poland, the church is a compact, tightly knit unit, holding together against the Marxist enemy. It is hard for him to understand those Americans who disagree publicly and loudly with church teaching, yet consider themselves good Catholics...
Once can be a slip of the lip. Twice in five days looks intentional. And although President Carter and his aides insisted that any such interpretation was wrong, the result could not be denied. In his yet unannounced candidacy against Ted Kennedy, his equally unannounced challenger, Jimmy Carter had publicly evoked a shattering political image: Chappaquiddick. Carter's first reference came during a meeting with a group of news editors at the White House. Asked about the significance of polls on presidential popularity, he replied: "I think we have got a superb record . . . of course, your own character assessment...
...event had been long expected, yet it still came as a shock that reverberated through the U.S. labor movement. After 24 embattled years as president of the AFL-CIO, George Meany, 85 and ailing, announced last week that he would retire in November. When AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland broke the news to the members of the federation's executive council, they sat in stunned silence...
Rising fast in the hierarchy, Meany was chosen president of the AFL in 1952. He promptly engineered a merger between his craft unions and the industrial unions of the CIO, producing a national labor movement with the muscle to back up its demands. Yet he remained more practical than ideological, a champion of "the American way of life"-thrift, sobriety, patriotism and perseverance. Meany remained an unrepentant hawk; he had battled Communist labor unions in Western Europe after World War II, and he supported the Viet...
...precisely because to be alone has always been part of my style or, if you like, my technique." I do not believe that I said this in that context or that it was about myself. Ms. Fallaci has consistently refused to make the tapes available to other journalists. And yet she was on to something. The "peace is at hand" press conference had had an electric effect. Coming on top of a year of successful negotiations, it was for me a moment of unusual pride not leavened by humility. Fallaci caught that mood, even if she took liberties with...