Word: though
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Thank you for your cover article [Dec. 7] concerning the prisoners of war. After having read it, though, I could not help visualizing a great many of your subscribers scanning the magazine, setting it aside, and forgetting their sympathy for these men within the week. Please do not mistake my tone for that of bitterness. There is no guilt in this act; indeed, I have done it myself many times. In this instance, however, it is not so easy...
Gordon was scarcely impartial; at a mere 14 he had worked for Eugene McCarthy's campaign. As a fledgling reporter, though, he came prepared with a straight question...
...Though the stoppage had been coming for months, President Nixon waited until less than two days before the deadline to take the only official action left open to him: he placed the problem before Congress, which was racing to wrap up last-minute business before adjourning. To the Democrats, the President's request for a simple 45-day no-strike law smacked too much of management bias. They immediately set about weighting the measure in favor of labor. "If we take away the right of these men to strike ... we at least ought to give them the cost...
Shortly after Tito broke with Moscow in 1948, he defused the issue by signing an agreement, negotiated under British and U.S. auspices. The pact gave Italy administration over the city and Yugoslavia day-to-day control, though not formal sovereignty, over a 40-sq.-mi. area to the east of Trieste known as "Zone B." Since then, relations between the two countries have improved to the point where neither requires visas from the others citizens...
...sort of night Harvard manager Glenn Koocher dreams about, though the microphone didn't perform up to expectations. "I just hope my campaign for school committee goes as well," mused Koocher, a Cambridge resident. He plans to run next year...