Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With so many problems flowing together, the nation was battered by a flood tide of frustration and anxiety. A doubt that in the past had rarely been articulated or even felt crept into the American consciousness: Is the U.S., after all, as fallible in its aims and unsure of its answers as any other great power? Can-and should-the Viet Nam war be won? Can the nation simultaneously allay poverty, widen opportunity, eradicate racism, make its cities habitable and its laws uniformly just? Or will it have to jettison urgent social objectives at home for stern and insistent commitments...
...three adult Americans (21 and over) drink at least occasionally, one in eight drinks to excess and one in 16-or about 6,800,000-drinks enough to be classified as a problem drinker. The estimated 1967 consumption of some 4 billion gallons represents a record alcoholic tide, suggesting a land of serious, two-fisted drinkers...
...went looking for a place to swim and sunbathe. "I know," Holt suggested. "Let's go to Cheviot Beach" -a lonely, rocky stretch 21 miles from Holt's beach home, and one of the most dangerous beaches in the Portsea area. When the five arrived, the tide was at crest, and ugly chunks of wood and flotsam bobbed about on the sur face. "I had never seen it like that before," Mrs. Gillespie says. But Holt decided to go in anyway. "I know this beach like the back of my hand," he insisted. After all, he had been...
...Marco Polo." Holt strolled down the beach and dived into the chill waters. "If Mr. Holt can take it," Stewart said, "I'd better go in too." He went for a dip but, discouraged by the condition of the water, quickly returned to the others. By now, the tide had turned and was rushing out. As he swam, his head bobbing above the waves, Holt was carried farther and farther out into a broad stretch of swirling water. "Suddenly," Mrs. Gillespie recalls, "I had the most terrible feeling and yelled: 'Come back, come back!' " "Does he often...
Reversing the Tide. While color alone has never been a strong enough tie to unify a continent whose people have plenty of other differences to fight over, economic interest could reverse the tide of apartness. The new Community now offers a common market of 28 million persons that is largely free of tariffs. If the Community embraces the other nine nations, it would have a market of 100 million people...