Word: bested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sister Beth has confused almost all of the facts. Having me here is the best thing that has happened to her since I stopped stealing the candy bars out of her lunch...
...fact, they knew they had the best job in the world. No matter what, there is nothing a photojournalist would rather do than look at the world around him and take pictures of it -- pictures of living history, which means, especially, pictures of human behavior. If he doesn't get a thrill out of that job, if he doesn't wake every morning with excitement and go out with his cameras hanging on him like a gold prospector with his rock hammer in hand, % he's no good. Over the years some photojournalists have said to me, "if they didn...
...explosive industrialism that was the engine of American wealth pounded fiercely at the workers who kept it running. Factories were foul and dangerous. Twelve-hour workdays were common. Wages were driven mercilessly downward. Depressions periodically rattled the economy, erasing millions of jobs that paid little even in the best of times. In an increasingly desperate atmosphere, labor and capital faced off along a line drawn in blood...
...early decades, photography was best suited not to events but to the rubble and corpses they left in their wake. The first generations to devote themselves to the camera found amid those ruins the very issues that would preoccupy documentary photographers to this...
...This isn't being approached on that basis. Everybody appreciates that it is a national disaster and that we've got to address it. We're trying to do it as best we can on the merits on a bipartisan basis," Darman said...