Word: doormats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Militarily, Cambodia has become a doormat for Indochina's warring forces. In its eastern provinces, 10,000 ARVN troops were cautiously probing the sanctuaries where elements of three North Vietnamese divisions are believed to be waiting for the signal to open their long-awaited dry-season offensive in South Viet Nam. Meanwhile, Communist units deeper inside Cambodia opened their own offensive. In midweek, a force of Communist artillerymen, perhaps no more than 200 strong, struck the capital with a devastating, 90-minute rocket and mortar barrage...
Forced by the biggest snowstorm of the winter to spend four days in lovely, downtown Ithaca, N.Y., the Harvard swimming team almost suffered the added insult of losing to Cornell, the traditional doormat of the league, before pulling out a 58-55 win on Saturday...
...Carswell's Fifth District Court refused to testify on behalf of the nominee. The Chairmen, past and present, of the American Bar Association and other members of the Legal Establishment wrote a letter, the Rosenman letter, denouncing Carswell. A group of liberal Republicans not welcome on the White House doormat, the Wednesday Club, egged one another on in their defection. A group of Columbia Law School students unearthed the sensational statistic that Carswell had been reversed in 40 per cent of his 15,000 decisions. And inside the Senate it was the Dump Carswell Movement headed up by Senator Bayh...
...this seems fairly strange, it is because this may be the strangest season in Ivy League history. It is the best balanced race of any in the League's 14 years-for the first time there is no acknowledged doormat. Yet there is a strong possibility that the championship will be settled by Halloween, when Yale and Dartmouth meet in New Haven. And this means trouble for the Crimson. A well balanced league is the last thing Harvard needs in a rebuilding year. If everyone is as good as Columbia, and several are better, chances could be slim of improving...
Everyone should have someone he can feel sorry for. That's why Charlie Brown was born. A human Edsel, a micro-Stassen, doormat to the world, Charlie has built a career on ineptitude and defeat. As a result, millions of idolaters have hailed the conquering zero, elevated him from comic strip to national pop artifact, and transformed his creator, Charles M. Schulz, into a new Disney...