Word: contended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cleanup detail, Private Gray carefully inspected each cigarette butt to determine how Camels were doing). Within seven years after his first camp cleanup detail, he was appointed Secretary of the Army by President Harry S. Truman. An intellectual, liberal Democrat, Gray is a poor target for critics who contend that there was an anti-intellectual basis for the decision that Oppenheimer is a security risk. His brief description of his job as chairman of the AEC board: "The most difficult assignment I ever...
...long run," Allport said, "the white child will grow up without the false sense of superiority; and the Negro child without the false sense of humiliation and inferiority with which he now must contend...
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, the varsity gets its third and last chance to finish out the season triumphantly. Playing on familiar greens, at the Oakley Country Club, the varsity may be a strong contender in the New England Intercollegiates. This is the varsity's maiden year in the New Englands, which have previously coincided with the Easterns. So, trying new ground, the six varsity entrants could edge Williams, the tourney favorite. But, even so, the Crimson will have to contend with three teams it has already lost to this season, Dartmouth, Amherst, and B.C., plus a strong Connecticut squad. Yale...
Protestants contend that the official attitude "contravenes the principles of religious liberty." Colombians often reply that the mainland Protestant missionaries, notably the bell-ringing Jehovah's Witnesses, start the trouble by being offensively aggressive in 100% Catholic areas. But that argument hardly applied to the islands, where last week 600 Protestant children had no classrooms to go to except in a few crowded government schools taught by Capuchin friars...
...petition, which was presented this week to Lummus, was signed by ten of the chief contributors to the Arboretum. They contend that the move intended by the University would be breaking faith with the terms of James Arnold's will...