Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heath did not quite make it. From the overstuffed red woolsack,* the Lord Chancellor announced the vote: "184 lords are content, 193 lords are not content." The government had lost by a margin of only nine votes, far fewer than predicted. Shaken, the Lords opposition leader, Lord Carrington, immediately indicated that Conservatives would let the order through without delay if the government reintroduces...
...have some college education, Donovan said that there has been "a vast diffusion of education and influence, and a multiplication of decision-making places throughout our society. Yet at the same time, the growing complexity of the problems we face at home and abroad, and the heavy emotional content of these problems, makes the moral leadership of the President more and more often the crucial factor. You will lead Presidents no less than being led by them," Donovan concluded. "Hold Presidents and yourselves, then, to the highest standards of civic courage, compassion and honor...
Street Hoodlum. In the debate over course content, scholars agree that Negro history has been both slighted and skewed by the university. The lack of a perceptive analysis of the Negro's role in U.S. history and culture, many historians now concede, raises serious doubts about their own past techniques and insights. At the same time, universities are fighting the temptation-created by black student pressure-to romanticize the Negro past. Attempts to exaggerate the role of a Negro like Crispus Attucks, who was killed in the Boston Massacre, can be misleading. "He was just a street hoodlum...
Ford's courses are noted for his dry delivery. But students who paid attention to his lectures found them thorough, fascinating, and even witty. His Administration, like his course treatment, may be sometimes dry in tone but never in content...
...Miss Keller once said, "I would marry first of all." But she did not feel that her life was a limited one. "Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times. But it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. The wind passes, and the flowers are content... I believe that all through these dark and silent years God has been using my life for a purpose I do not know. But one day I shall understand, and then I will be satisfied...