Word: mc
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Finally, at exactly 10:15 p.m., the terrible suspense ended. "All right, ladies and gentlemen, the moment you've all been waiting for," the MC said from the stage...
Just as the technetronic revolution has further divided rich from poor nations, so is it beginning to fracture the nation-state. But the result of the breakup is not likely to lead to One World. Brzezinski amends Marshall Mc-Luhan's thesis that the world is shrinking into a "global village." A village implies shared tradition and intimacy. Today's technetronic world resembles rather a "global city-a nervous, agitated, tense, and fragmented web of interdependent relations." To recover some sense of identity, people are desperately turning back to their origins in race or region...
...long since divorced from Mc-Pherson, Aimee eloped to Yuma, Ariz., with a plump baritone named David Hutton, who sang in the temple choir. On the morning after their wedding, Aimee and David cooed over the radio from the bridal boudoir in the evangelist's home and signed off with a loud wet smack. Next day David was sued for breach of promise by a "masseuse" named Myrtle Joan Hazel St. Pierre, who announced that "Big Boy" had sullied her virtue on the floor of her living room and then had failed to make an honest woman...
...margin of defeat for the Mc-Govern-Hatfield proposal was neither small enough to constitute a "moral victory," as Hatfield claimed, nor large enough to stand as an impressive endorsement of presidential policy. The willingness of more than a third of the Senators to take the unprecedented step of handing the President a deadline for terminating a shooting war was a clear warning that senatorial patience was precariously thin. Yet the vote also indicated Nixon's skill at maneuvering to take the steam out of each resurgence of opposition to his strategy for seeking peace...
Young, who grew up in Detroit writing blues songs, treats MC and his friends with a kind of reverence. At 31, he plainly agrees with Celebrated Jazzman Jo Jones, whom he quotes: "Music is not only a God-given talent; it is a God-given privilege to play music...