Word: indirection
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Yesterday, Mayor Daniel J. Hayes Jr. said that Cambridge is expected to receive soon the second of two major federal grants, both of which are indirect results of that letter. He indicated also that the City's housing situation is getting better, but that it is far from solved...
Other over-interpreters include the listeners who-like literary critics dissecting a sonnet-ferret out indirect references in Beatle lyrics and persist in catching a whiff of drugs in such innocuous songs as Yellow Submarine. And there is still the hardy minority that insists on viewing the Beatles as the great put-on of the century...
...clean out Communists and political corruption, he stripped almost 800 Brazilians of their political rights and abolished all political parties except for a catchall government party and a token opposition. To guard against any return to the old ways, he also wrote a new constitution that provided for indirect presidential elections by Congress...
From Havana, Kosygin flew on to Paris and brief talks with Charles de Gaulle. The visit was mostly ceremonial-a Soviet show of thanks for De Gaulle's indirect support during the Middle East crisis. Then it was home to Moscow...
...service should take, and the choice of alternatives will be no easy matter. If an individual objects to contributing directly to the American war effort, how far from the actual war must he be removed for the sake of conscience? (Ultimately, many forms of alternative service will involve some indirect contribution.) And how will the government allocate its manpower to assure that the essential jobs are filled...