Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...became optimistically convinced that there would be no major war, they eagerly pursued their normal national interests. It was a time for new initiatives, a time to see what gains could be won for as little as possible; and certainly no nation, large or small, was performing this natural function of nations with more profit or more style than De Gaulle's France. With a population of only 48 million, a land mass smaller than Texas', an economy that is booming but still no match for West Germany's, and a nuclear device too cumbersome...
Goodman said that any defense of the book would be based on the last censorship case in Massachusetts, which involved Tropic of Cancer. In that case the state Supreme Court declared that "anything with literary attributes" could not be banned and that it is "not the function of judges to serve as arbiters of taste...
...much-talked-about return to private law practice after three years as Deputy Defense Secretary, he called a farewell press conference and said he no longer felt that the three military services could be usefully united. Nor did he still think that the three civilian service secretaries could better function as Assistant Defense Secretaries. And he had also abandoned the idea for a single Chief of Staff to represent all the military branches. But it wasn't a total turnabout. He still agrees with Robert McNamara on greater reliance on missiles...
Hello, Dolly! does occasionally get bogged in a plot hole, and the score fills a function more often than it casts a spell. But with Oliver Smith's evocative lithograph-like settings and Freddy Wittop's costumes, which gleam like spring tulips against the backdrop of brownstones, there is no handsomer way to visit Little Old New York...
...morals generally. Said he: "Most of our literature and social philosophy after 1850 was the voice of freedom against authority, of the child against the parent, of the pupil against the teacher. Through many years I shared in that individualistic revolt. I do not regret it; it is the function of youth to defend liberty and innovation, of the old to defend order and tradition, and of middle age to find a middle way. But now that I too am old, I wonder whether the battle I fought was not too completely won. Let us say humbly but publicly that...