Word: demande
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generated more than the usual H-Y enthusiasm. Harvard Stadium sold out its 40,000 seats without public sale and officials estimated that they could have filled 60,000 more without difficulty. 3000 closed-circuit TV tickets for three campus outlets were snatched up quickly, and the demand has been so great that other closed-circuit outlets have been set up in New York, New Haven, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. In addition, radio bradcasts will go to Harvard and Yale clubs in most sections of the United States...
...major upsets, 36-year-old Portland Attorney Robert W. Packwood had dislodged Democrat Wayne Morse, 68, from the Senate seat that he has occupied for 24 years. At week's end, Packwood held a thin 3,554 margin over Morse out of 814,418 votes cast. Morse will demand a recount. Unless it reverses the verdict, however, the brilliantly erratic Democrat-and onetime Republican-will retire to raise cattle on his Willamette Valley farm...
...ministry was under attack because of the increasing demand for imported dog food. Japanese dog food is more expensive, and is largely made of fish, thus likely to cause acute cases of canine halitosis. Over the past several years, pet owners have turned more and more to cheaper brands from abroad -and the demand has outgrown the government-regulated supply. If the ministry fails to respond, the dogs may well go to the country's leaders once again...
...Francisco tactical police squad, which had been called in to clear the campus during earlier disorders, was summoned again. A faculty meeting, convened to decide whether or not the faculty should join the strike, voted instead to demand the resignation of Chancellor Dumke for having ordered Murray's suspension. Many faculty members felt that Murray's provocations were intolerable and that he purposely sought suspension in order to rally support for earlier B.S.U. demands. But they resented Dumke's intervention in college affairs even more. The faculty also voted for a "suspension of instruction," and within...
Football players denied yesterday that anyone had ordered the additional tickets with the intention of scalping them. "When we ordered them a few weeks ago no one even knew that this game would be so crucial, and tickets so much in demand," one player said. But some team members have apparently been unable to resist the astronomical prices currently being offered, he added...