Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indeed an honor to be asked to write a guest piece for The Harvard Crimson. And not inappropriate, I might add. As a former Harvard goaltender, I have always felt a certain bond with the Crimson writer. Both the Harvard goalie and the Crimson writer work long and hard to master their craft. And both the Harvard goalie and the Crimson writer take a great deal of verbal abuse for their efforts. The only difference that I can see is that the Harvard goalie usually doesn't deserve the abuse...
That the Soviet Union is anxious to extend its influence throughout the crisis area is beyond dispute.* What is less certain is how boldly it is pursuing this goal. Moscow's view of Iran under the Shah appears to have been highly ambiguous. Some experts believe Iran's Tudeh Communists played a direct role in the well-organized strikes of the oil workers and in the mass demonstrations against the Shah. Russian radio stations broadcast anti-American and anti-Shah propaganda. Yet the Soviets also became the Shah's third largest arms supplier and entered into several...
...liaison office in Peking, Teng raised a glass of California champagne to Leonard Woodcock, the chief of the American mission, who is expected to be named the first U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic. In an elaborate toast, the husky-voiced Vice Premier said, "I feel certain that the far-reaching influence the establishment of diplomatic relations between our two countries exerts upon the defense of world peace will become more and more evident with the passage of time...
...cloud of dust. "I may not be able to outsmart too many people, but I can outwork 'em," he frequently said, and he was right. But whatever his intellectual insecurities, Hayes was confident that he was receiving life's message loud and clear. Rectitude, he was certain, lay in Midwestern values, rock-ribbed Republicanism and college football. Just as surely, permissiveness led to social cataclysm, liberalism to national weakness. He built his personal philosophy on the lessons of war and football, and he saw numerous parallels between the two. His heroes were Abraham Lincoln, Ralph Waldo Emerson...
Marriage Counselor Gloria Pineles of Rego Park, N.Y., finds that inflation is increasingly endangering family stability. Says she: "People are accustomed to living a certain lifestyle, and all of a sudden they find that they cannot take an annual vacation or send their second child to college. This leads to resentment and frustration. Family finances become clouded in secrecy, and neither spouse has a good understanding of where the paycheck is going...