Word: giveaway
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...reduce his scenes to message is to miss both his point and his quality. Still, given the high-voltage polarity of the age, Wolfe is already being unfairly abstracted for message and misread something like this: the black movement is a put-on; the poverty program is a feckless giveaway; white liberals are pure patsies. As a result, he will endure not merely the embarrassing approval of the Neanderthals ("You see! you see!") but the threat of stoning at the hands of enraged reformers and black extremists alike. When a TIME reporter recently asked a minister of the Panther Party...
...Make Your Own World" is a delightful teaching aid that Coca-Cola includes in its new ecology kit, a promotional giveaway for school boards. To date, Coke bottlers have distributed 4,000 kits nationwide, and every teacher who has seen it wants...
...that by admitting students "who do not meet the standards and requirements of higher education," New York "will have traded away one of the intellectual assets of the Western world for a four-year community college and 100,000 devalued diplomas." Some angry parents see open admissions as a giveaway of an opportunity that their children had to earn by academic merit...
...Seoul's Kimpo airport, South Korean, U.S. and United Nations flags were hurriedly hauled down and giveaway signs were removed or covered up. A detachment of South Korean soldiers was quickly outfitted with the quilted uniforms and rifles of North Korea's army. As the plane landed, the tower boomed: "This is Pyongyang! We welcome you wholeheartedly...
Died. Hal March, 49, Broadway actor, onetime quizmaster on the infamous TV giveaway show The $64,000 Question; of pneumonia following the removal of a cancerous lung; in Los Angeles. A journeyman actor when he took over Question in 1955, March stayed with the show for three years before quitting in favor of a Broadway career. He had no connection with the 1959 quiz scandals, and went on to success as the star of the 1961 comedy Come Blow Your Horn...