Word: cravenness
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...renewal foes from Charlestown and Roxbury, along with members of Students for a Democratic Society, and representatives of the John Birch society, had gathered to rally the cause of the North Harvard residents. Shortly after Boston city counsilor Katherine Craven, a colorful and outspoken renewal critic heard of the situation and rushed to the scene...
...color. In Red Desert he shows a painterly approach to each frame; indeed he had whole fields and streets sprayed with pigment to produce precise shades of mood and meaning. Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity, from craven yellow and life-brimming green to violent, passionate crimson and the grey of total despair...
Second Chance. Amid these winds of change, Doyle eventually got his case before North Carolina's liberal U.S. District Judge James B. Craven by petitioning for a writ of habeas corpus. Stunned at the record, Craven suggested there was a violation of the Eighth Amendment's guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment. Restricted by precedents, however, he simply ordered a new trial on the ground that Doyle had been unlawfully imprisoned because his court-appointed lawyer had had only a few hours to prepare a defense. In a scathing order, Craven told North Carolina that imprisoning rather than...
Using Rothman as a base, Rupert began setting up subsidiaries throughout the Commonwealth. His shrewdest move came in 1958. Capitalizing on a peculiar stock arrangement in London's venerable Carreras Tobacco Co. (Craven A), he won control of the company for only $4,500,000, quickly sold off antiquated factories for $15 million to finance a modernization program...
Harvard's craven, if piecemeal, capitulation to latter-day feminism, culminating in the recent decision to grant Radcliffe girls Harvard degrees, should hardly be taken as an example by intellectually more mature institutions of higher learning...