Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although House athletic secretary Ricardo Wilson maintained that a "high enthusiasm" prevailed in his house, Adams House is currently in or near last place in nearly every league race. It is on the bottom in both "B" basketball and hockey...
...King sees four plateaus within a skyward spiral of interracial progress. Down at the bottom is slavery, initiated in 1619 with the first shipment of African captives to the New World. Next comes segregation, a phase begun with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863--"slavery obscured by the niceties of complexity." In the third stage, which includes the Supreme Court decision of 1954 and the Civil Rights Act of '64, segregation becomes illegal. That's where we are now. Legislation can't change the heart, but it can "restrain the heartless. It can't make a man love...
...will get to the bottom of this if I have to drag in Dr. Pusey and the whole Harvard Faculty," Vellucci said...
First, the House Democratic Caucus demoted two southern Democrats, John Bell Williams of Mississippi and Albert W. Watson of South Carolina, to the very bottom of the seniority ladder because they openly supported Barry Goldwater for the Presidency. The emphatic margin in the Caucus (157-115) suggests that southern conservatives will no longer be able to enjoy the advantages of a Democratic label on Capital Hill and a Goldwater labed back home...
...make things more interesting, the surfers were required to follow a zigzag course, much like a slalom ski run. Judges deducted points for such infractions as "bottom turning"-cutting in front of another surfer knifing down the wave. The surprise winner: Honolulu Schoolboy Fred Hemmings Jr., 18, who became surfing's youngest world champion ever by riding three waves 600 yds. or so, tucking himself out of sight in "the pipe" (the fastest, most dangerous part of the wave, where it rolls over and down) to gain speed, sliding around the buoys without losing "the green,"-the unbroken portion...