Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Number three man Clive Klleff dropped the first set to Sven Karlen before rallying 4-6, 6-4, 6-1. Dartmouth's Larry Himes, a dog-fighter with a natural backhand that goes straight up in the air, whipped Richie Friedman 6-0 in the first set. Friedman, a bit of a scrapper himself, ran out the last two sets, 6-2, 8-6, for Harvard's fourth win. Brian Davis (6) edged Roger Gutner...
Pavlovicm Cries. Fulbright's intimations of American "arrogance" are based in part on the dog-eared premise that the U.S. would like to remake the world in its image. Indeed, Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore actually asked McNamara whether Washington aimed to establish "an American-type state" in South Viet Nam. "It is our goal," replied McNamara coolly, "to allow those people to choose the form of political institutions under which they prefer to live. I suppose you could conceive of them choosing some form other than a democratic form. If they did, we would adhere to that choice...
...bewildering route, the author's meaning must usually be guessed at; nobody's going to catch Julio Cortázar making things too clear. "Sometimes I am convinced," muses one character, "that the triangle is another name for stupidity, that eight times eight is madness or a dog." When this character, a Uruguayan woman called La Maga, goes to bed with Horacio Oliveira, an Argentine, they make love in "Gliglish": "Right away she tordled her hurgales, allowing him gently to bring up his orfelunes...
...Democrats' speaker, Chairman Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., '37. In answer to a question concerning whether Sen. Jacob Javits would seek the New York governorship. Mr. Roosevelt is quoted in your story as replying. "Javits would probably be better off with a Democratic governor, so that he could be top dog, just as Bobby Kennedy is better off with a Republican in Albany...
...tape of the lecture shows that Mr. Roosevelt actually said. "Javits would probably be better off with a Democratic governor, so that he could be top dog, just as some people say Bobby Kennedy is better off with a Republican in Albany--but I don't believe it, and I don't think he does either...