Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months. Worried about giving any single Democrat an advantage, Harris devised a dinner agenda without formal speeches. That also avoided dramatizing the fact that no one in the party is the accepted leader or an effective drawing card. Nor was there anything encouraging for 1972 to be drawn from certain popularity indicators; as Hubert Humphrey, Edmund Muskie and Edward Kennedy were introduced, it was Humphrey, the defeated candidate, who drew the warmest applause. Former President Lyndon Johnson was honorary chairman of the dinner but did not even attend, and his name was mentioned only once. That was when...
...generations, the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America was identified with the rich and the few "good families" who controlled most countries. In the 1960s, Vatican II's pressures for social reform began to exert dramatic changes. Today, the Catholic clergy has been drawn into conflict with conservative regimes throughout Latin America-especially in Brazil and Paraguay...
What happens to little girls who actively bid for the approval of other little girls their age? They get it. And what happens to little boys who crave popularity with other little boys? They are scorned. This somewhat unsettling conclusion has been drawn from an experiment staged at two suburban Boston grade schools by Psychologist Lane K. Conn of Boston's Northeastern University. With two research assistants. who suggested the experiment, Conn rated 192 fifth-and sixth-graders on a scale that measured their need for approval. Then his subjects were asked, among other things, to pick the three...
...Committee has concluded that the Resolution is not explicit on matters of this kind and that any committee, whatever its mandate, should in responding to the first instance of this kind of activity begin by making unmistakably clear to all concerned where the limits to behavior should be drawn...
...requirement that suspended students refrain from regular use of University facilities and from working within the University has drawn fire from students who charged that the requirement interferes with free exchange of ideas within the University...