Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, Hufstedler is politically savvy enough not to close the door on a position she has long coveted: that of being the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. Before agreeing to become Secretary of Education, she extracted a promise from Carter that he would not preclude her from any future Supreme Court vacancy. For now, however, she is content to concentrate on education. To reporters, she insisted that her "lifelong interest" in education qualified her for the post. She admitted, however, that she does not "have any specific ideas right now about the Department of Education because I simply...
...Judiciary Committee that famine and disease threatened to extinguish the entire Cambodian people. Republican John Danforth of Missouri said he and his colleagues had visited camps in Thailand that were simply "ground with people strewn over it." Danforth argued that "hundreds of thousands of people [are] at death's door. We saw people who couldn't walk 100 yards." Said Democrat James Sasser of Tennessee: "The human suffering we found was so deep and pervasive that I don't have the words to adequately describe...
Finally in his senior year. Horner was given his chance in the limelight. He started slowly, catching only six passes in the first three games from the revolving door--the Harvard quarterback slot. But as the signal-caller situation settled down. Horner got pumped...
...committee plans to increase recruiting efforts for this drive by sending volunteers from door to door encourage donors, she said...
...Harvard's next play from scrimmage, a fumble at the 28 also brought Brown knocking at the door again...