Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alone in her struggle to bring up children to lead fruitful lives. As a teacher of young children, I am daily inspired by those mothers who are dedicated to the task of teaching moral and social values to the future citizens of our country. They may not be as spectacular as Ethel, but their number is legion. All is not yet lost in this country...
Closing the Loopholes. To offset part of that loss, Nixon would close some of the controversial loopholes used by the wealthy to avoid taxes. The most spectacular item is a proposed limit on tax preferences-or LTP, as alphabet-minded Washington dubbed it. It would place a 50% ceiling on the amount of a taxpayer's income above $10,000 that is eligible for favored treatment. Income would have to include the appreciated value of property donated to charity, and the ceiling would restrict the amount of deductions that a taxpayer could take for 1) oil-depletion allowances...
...Tigers trounced Penn, 8-1, in a crucial Eastern League contest to give Harvard almost a sure tie for first place in the league with those two teams. The Crimson lost a tight early-season match to the Quakers, then featuring a stacked lineup, but rallied to win a spectacular victory over powerful Princeton Saturday...
...many surprises of the last 19 days, none has been more unexpected than the Faculty's spectacular display of unity under the pressure of events...
...turning point of the battle was Rocky Jarvis's spectacular victory over previously undefeated junior Rich Howell. Howell, a baseline player, rarely charged the net, and the match dragged out for more than three hours. Jarvis ended...