1) call
it
2) inverse law
3) obituary: Nachruf
death notice, obituary notice, obituary: Traueranzeige, Todesanzeige
4) the greater …. the harsher
5) the acclaim/(widely )acclaimed
6) reappraisal
7) record: cf. “track record”
8) popular ↔ famous
9) supporter
BUT: follower, following
10) to repeal a law/noun: the repeal
11) the 22nd amendment to the constitution
12) to serve a term (e.g. as president, chancellor, prime minister etc.)
13) downbeat ↔ upbeat (originally an expression taken from the field of
music)
14) he was too late, to little, too lame
15) when it came to: cf. the common expression when it comes to …
16) human rights abuses
17) widely regarded as
18) the media …. it seldom showed
19) response (HERE)
20) to grant sb. an indulgence
21) to reassure the people about (the nature and quality of)
22) a stream of columnists, bloggers … were quick to re-evaluate
23) abrupt decision
24) to pardon (HERE)/presidential pardon
25) wrongdoing
26) it was hard to see how
27) “to do much good” (negative or in questions)
28) to conclude
29) to deal sb. a good/strong/bad/weak hand, “a winning hand”
30) burdens
31) in the mid 1970s
32) to slide into recession
33) to bite sharply
34) constitutional and political wreckage
35) embers
36) to smoulder
37) on Ford’s watch
38) ignominious/noun: ignomy
39) airlift evacuation
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