Word: keep
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Texan's braggadocio has been largely justified. The dollar is the only big-power currency that has escaped devaluation since World War II. The non-Communist world runs not on a gold standard but a dollar standard. Other countries value their own money in terms of dollars, keep much of their reserves in dollars, and often settle international accounts in dollars. Confidence in U.S. money allows American traders and travelers to spend freely all over the globe. It also gives the Federal Government a unique freedom of action in economics and world politics: Washington has been able to spend...
...revolution is reforming, despite the Nineteenth Year. Other combatants are introduced. Corey dreams of striding into school "cool and easy some morning with the rifle on his back like a guerrilla fighter. Line up the faculty. Torture the principal to learn where they keep the anxiety gases and the chemicals they put in the soup to make the kids stupid and passive." Corey sells pot, "for the money and the style and to buck the system." He is part Indian. He seizes his high school, holds it for four days, then escapes and forms a tribe of revolutionists who think...
...glutton, a Stendhal glory hound. The settings, however, are strictly 20th century American, illuminated by sheets of cold neon. Urban infestations where "taxes are rising and the tax base is falling," suburbs that miraculously exist for hours without the visible presence of human life, transitional neighborhoods where elderly holdouts keep their white elephants alive by secretly feeding them boarders...
...lives in caves and forests because their saturation-bombed villages no longer exist. There are over 3 million bomb-craters in the lunarlike landscape of Indochina. Bombing and like acts of terrorism cannot be condoned, and it is heartening to see you come out against such irrational, destructive behavior. Keep up your efforts, and maybe the bombings will cease.Teaching Fellow, Romance Languages
...purpose is to combine field work and theoretical work-to keep them both honest," Hoy said. "The courses on this campus focus only on theory. Only the Afro-American Studies department really attempts the kind of combination we have in mind...