Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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A fine administrator, Freeman took good care of the state's lagging education and welfare programs; in five years he spent $27 million on college buildings, added 1,500 beds to state mental hospitals, increased state aid to local school districts by $50 per pupil. But Fair Dealer Freeman...
Freeman styles himself as a friend of the farmer, and he is also a friend of the subsidy-loving National Farmers Union. He believes that family farms must be preserved (presumably by subsidies), and farm surpluses must be reduced by overseas sales programs and giveaways, by free school-lunch programs...
Robert Francis Kennedy, 35. The most controversial of the new appointments, Bobby Kennedy's, cannot really be called nepotism, his brother insists, because Bobby has earned it in his own right. Father Joe Kennedy agrees. Bobby Kennedy hesitated a long while, knowing that others would not agree.
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Bobby Kennedy has never practiced law privately but, for his age, he has had valuable experience in the Federal Government's legal labyrinth. Soon after he graduated from the University of Virginia law school (1951), he joined the Justice Department's criminal division as a junior investigator, plunged...