Word: backed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gives back Texas, California and all other land acquired from Mexico will be the day that I justify Israel's giving up its land to the Arabs...
Feeling he had been misused, Baker bounced back fast. He made a dramatic entry into the race for Senate minority leader in 1977 and beat out the favored Senator Robert Griffin of Michigan. He proved surprisingly effective in a generally thankless job, welding the independent-minded Republican Senate barons into a cohesive opposition without making enemies. Says Nevada's G.O.P. Senator Paul Laxalt, Ronald Reagan's campaign chairman: "Nobody has a bad word to say about Howard...
...they did come, they were expected to keep their opinions to themselves; if they discussed them in public or attempted to act upon them, they were exiled; if they persisted in returning, they were cast out again; if they still came back, as did four Quakers, they were hanged on Boston Common. And from the Puritan point of view, it was good riddance. Perry Miller and Thomas H. Johnson, The Puritans...
Yesterday, the frustration came to a head. The Crimson played a solid game that would make any rebuilding team pround. Freshman goalie Kate Williams turned back 11 shots, but missed three--one by Sue Paylor and two by Carol Dainneault--and that was the ball game...
...there is a bright side. With the exception of Julie Cornman, everyone will be back next fall. Come September, the strickwomen will return raring...