Word: clashingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Word Baker. Aurally, the result is almost consistently delightful. But Baker is evidently afraid to let the play pull its own oar; and he has done his best to scuttle the script by piling on a lot of irrelevant and irreverent stage gimmicks and by juxtaposing costumes that clash in both style and period...
...champion of the foot soldier and an acid critic of the theory of massive retaliation. While his own theory of flexible response calls for balanced forces, he contends that the prevailing definition of massive retaliation rules out anything less than full nuclear war if U.S. and Soviet troops clash in Europe. "This definition," he wrote, "can stultify sensible planning for a situation such as might arise if the U.S.S.R. or its allies blocked our access to Berlin. In planning for such a contingency, the definition can be used as an argument against using U.S. ground forces as a probe...
...Africans were simply ignorant of places where integration in fact existed. They made a bold entry into Salisbury's public library, shamefacedly discovered Africans had been using it for years. The same thing happened in the elevators of Salisbury's biggest office building. The most dramatic clash came when the N.D.P.'s Lovemore Chimonyo led four Africans up the steps of the Dutch Reformed Church for Sunday services. Ushers blocked their entry, and a crowd of white bystanders quickly gathered. "Look at that dirty black hand that murders white people," screamed one woman...
Perhaps this explains why, at a college so proud of its academic tradition, we hear so little talk about courses, except, that is, about exams, "curves," and grades. Harvard, we are told, is a "free marketplace of ideas," an "intellectual community," a "clash of lively minds." But the actual lack of academic talk mocks these noble metaphors of commerce, fellowship and sport. Courses, by and large, are pursued in a social vacuum. It means nothing that students gather in a lecture hall, for they could as well remain in their rooms and watch the show on television...
Even before the beginning of the indoor track season last December, Mark Mullin of Harvard was looking forward to a clash with Elliott, the world record holder at 3:54.5, in the mile. After Mullin's 4:07.1 in the Heptagonal Games established him as the greatest miler in Ivy League history, the hullaballoo over his meeting with Elliott began to grow...