Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...going to stand idly by in the sense of rendering economic and material assistance when free countries are invaded." Agnew repeated to newsmen what he said he had told the Cambodians: The U.S. will not become militarily involved in any way in Cambodia except to protect or support American troops in Viet Nam. THAILAND: In warless Bangkok, his last stop, Agnew for the first time was able to relax. Unencumbered by heavy security, he signed autographs for children at his hotel, attended a state dinner in the prescribed open-necked, shortsleeved sports shirt, and, beer in hand, chatted amiably with...
...ringing slogans, and plenty of detractors, such as West Virginia Senator Jennings Randolph, who called the demonstrators "braless bubble-heads." But the women turned their opponents away with more tolerance and humor than has been the norm in American street politics. In the process, they probably won new support and undoubtedly new awareness among both men and women of the case for female rights...
...strongest words were those of Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, who publicly threw Russia's support behind the peace efforts. "It is very important for the peaceful forces in the Middle East not to let the initiative slip away and not to allow the foes of peace to blow up the agreement or use it to cover up their aggressive designs," Brezhnev declared in a nationwide television broadcast. He strongly backed the Arab cause, but warned the guerrillas to refrain from troublemaking. Said Brezhnev: "What is needed is not new provocations and subterfuges designed to circumvent or violate...
Born in Toledo in 1895, the son of a baker, Sanchez attended primary school for only four months; at the age of seven worked as a swineherd to support his family. Later, as a blacksmith's apprentice, working the great bellows and watching metal being hammered into new shapes, he began to dream of creating forms of his own. After his eyesight had been injured by stray sparks from the forge, he joined his family in Madrid and eventually became a baker. Some of the patterns characteristic of Spanish breads can be observed in his sculpture. "All his life...
...Only Genuine Robert Frost in Captivity." The first volume of Thompson's biography dealt with the powerful rages and resentments displayed by Frost early in life. Such faults seemed less shocking in a turbulent childhood, and more justified during the 20 years in which Frost struggled to support himself as a farmer and teacher as publishers kept rejecting what proved to be much of his best work...