Word: adds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Narrowing the List. Wagner's entrance into the race is expected to add stability to the Democratic contest by inducing at least two of the seven other announced mayoral candidates to drop out in his favor. Wagner will have to face his rivals in the June 17 Democratic primary. His chances are no worse than those of Lindsay in the G.O.P. primary, where two conservative Republicans are challenging the mayor. Wagner presents a threat to Lindsay's renomination by the Liberal Party, which provided Lindsay's margin of victory last time. The Liberals have backed Wagner...
...glumly greeted. Few politicians from other parties have joined the colonels since their coup. Most refer to them as steno-kephalos, or narrow heads. Athens wits insist that Nikolaos Makarezos was selected to oversee the economy as Minister of Coordination because he was the colonel who knew how to add and subtract. Retired diplomat and Nobel laureate Georges S. Seferiades laments the "state of enforced torpor." But out in the stony, sun-washed countryside beyond Athens, the colonels' austerities are better received...
...Dante were alive today, he might well add another circle in the lower depths of his Inferno. Inhabiting this new pit of horror would be the warring Negro leaders of Harlem and the meddling white man who tries to understand them. It is just such a journey into hell that D. Keith Mano, a white author, describes with Dantesque fervor in his second novel, Horn...
Again and again, you say, "the American people want" or "demand" or "insist." How do you know? Every poll I have seen puts your position in a minority. You just say, "the American people demand"--then add whatever you prefer. This is intellectually sloppy at best, and corrupt at worst...
...Add us to those older alumni who support the radical students at Harvard and Radcliffe. President Pusey's unreserved support for ROTC following the clear faculty vote against it showed how authoritarian is the administration philosophy...