Word: decays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flunking Freshmen. In Hubert Humphrey's bailiwick of Minnesota, Republicans profited from the Democratic Farmer Labor Party's decay and disarray. Beleaguered by intraparty strife and a state insurance scandal, Democratic Governor Karl Rolvaag was toppled by Republican Moderate Harold LeVander, 56, a St. Paul attorney and onetime law partner of Harold Stassen's. Swedish-descended son of a Lutheran preacher, LeVander is a stem-winding speaker who has delivered more than 200 high school commencement addresses with such galvanizing titles as "Rise Up and Build" and "You Have Singled; Now Score...
...outdated doctrinal formulas. The experience of church history is that every definition is a spiritual agony-man's ever impossible attempt to capture infinite mystery in finite words. "Words strain," as T. S. Eliot wrote, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still...
...Patriots would also have to make permanent improvements in order to handle extensive television and press. Harvard's press box, now in unbelievable decay, needs much capital improvement...
Then, with a sudden change in tone, his voice began to rise, to speed up, and soon he was racing through a fluent speech, hardly pausing for breath. He spoke for an hour, with restrained emotion, about the decay of his profession and his cause -- criminal...
...that acted on Triton to make it sink to its present orbit will continue to affect the larger moon at an accelerating rate. Tides raised on Neptune's surface by the pull of Triton's gravity exert a drag on the satellite that causes its orbit to decay. The tidal action on Neptune also creates friction that dissipates energy from the rotating Neptune-Triton system, further depressing Triton's orbit...