Word: alter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yale needs the victory to finish the season in a tie for first place with Princeton, but nothing the varsity does tonight will alter its position in the Ivy race...
...recent years has had a tremendous impact on the military, both in hardware and thinking. An even greater strain has been imposed on those responsible for providing the fleet with officers equipped to handle all of the ramifications of the space age. The Naval Academy is desperately seeking to alter its teaching methods and curriculum to meet the challenge. Unfortunately, it has not been able to bring itself to break completely with the traditions of the past, when all it had to do was produce a semiliterate officer well versed in gunnery, seamanship, steam propulsion, and the social refinements...
...everybody fought to save his own skin: the English to save England, De Gaulle to save France-his alter ego. I can see nothing reprehensible today in his desire not to let himself and the French be pasteurized, sterilized and homogenized. Anyway, that's the way they feel about...
...reluctance that Marshall, alter some stern pressure from U.S. Secretary of the, Interior Stewart Udall, eventually overcame. The Redskins signed their first Negro player...
...experiments on drugs that alter perception have long since stopped at 5 Divinity Avenue; Dr. Leary departs from the University to establish headquarters in Mexico, while Dr. Alpert remains in the employ of the graduate School of Education. Is the stoppage of drug experiments yet another encroachment on academic freedom, or is it protection against a bunch of nuts? Should, and can, the University wash its hands of experimentation with drugs, or is there perhaps something in the whole embarrassment that is valuable and worth encouraging...