Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning, after the death of the Rev. Martin Luther King, SCLC leaders held long discussions on whether they would go to Washington to build a movement of poor people, to win specific demands from Congress, or to do both...
Vesper represented the United States in the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, and two members of that Olympic team are still in the boat. But for the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, Harvard began to build last year. After a somewhat poor fourth in the North American championships, the heavies recovered to finish second in the European championships to West Germany's Ratzeberg crew. Now, in their training room along the Charles River, the Harvard crew members have Mexican travel posters on the wall, and a printed sign on the shower-room door: "On to the Olympics...
...TIME'S review of my current novel Airport [March 22], a criticism was made that a description of how to build a homemade bomb was needlessly specific. I consider this criticism justified. As a result, in later U.S. and overseas editions of the book, I have fuzzed the bomb description, making it impossible to follow by specific steps...
...writer who tries to build a serious novel on the restricted world of baseball starts with two strikes against him; it is an ungrateful subject. If he then compounds his folly by adding religious symbolism, most readers will head for the showers...
...Institute for the Study of Nonviolence. With annoyance, she relates the legends surrounding Howard Hughes. With nostalgia, she describes a visit with John Wayne: how, as a round-eyed California schoolgirl, she yearned for some young man to promise, as Wayne had promised a heroine in a movie, to build her a home "at the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow...