Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is an interesting day in the Ivies for several reasons. First, there are two key games. Our own Harvard team plays Dartmouth, and a title favorite and a title upstart, Princeton and Pennsylvania, meet in Philadelphia. A third key game, although the outcome isn't really in doubt...
...subway. I knew my verdict as I signed the protocol at the police station, in which it was stated that I had committed a crime under Article 190. "You fool," said the policeman, "if you had kept your mouth shut, you could have lived peacefully." He had no doubt that I was doomed to lose my liberty. Well, perhaps he is right and I am a fool...
...bigger than the other.' She cupped her breasts lightly in her hands. 'I suppose that's a habit of his-one side only.' " Kawabata is keenly aware of Japan's historical heritage: "The houses were built in the style of the old regime. No doubt they were there when provincial lords passed down this north-country road." History, sensuality and the land -all interweave to suggest rather than state the uniqueness of his vision...
...Window. The U.F.T. took newspaper ads to claim that its fight was really against "vigilantism, hate propaganda and terror in the schools." No doubt extremists in Ocean Hill had recklessly and needlessly inflamed the situation. No doubt the union had a point when it argued that its members stood to lose painfully gained job security if local committees were totally free to hire and fire teachers. Yet many New Yorkers were outraged by Shanker's own extremist rhetoric and by his arrogance in tying up the entire 1,100,000-pupil system over a dispute at one school...
...Beard's contentions.) "Beardism," in any case, provoked savage attacks. The Marion Star, an Ohio newspaper owned by President-to-be Warren G. Harding headlined: SCAVENGERS, HYENA-LIKE, DESECRATE THE GRAVES OF THE DEAD PATRIOTS WE REVERE. Ex-President William Howard Taft observed acidly that Beard would no doubt have preferred a Constitution drafted by "dead beats, demagogues and cranks who never had any money...