Word: drop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greensboro (N.C.) News was angry enough to drop the strip for good, along with another strip where evildoers are casually obliterated without benefit of trial, Little Orphan Annie. Explained the paper on Page One: "We have been quick to criticize other communications media for exploiting and even glorifying violence. However, we have our own weaknesses in this field, and it is only right that we take the necessary steps to bring our practices into line with our editorial policy...
...simply for delight, Bobby would always choose a writer who had something practical to tell him. Aeschylus, who introduced the tragic hero to literature, was his "favorite poet." On the death of Martin Luther King Jr., he used the lines: "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God." Asked once why he strove so hard, Kennedy again quoted from Aeschylus: "When the height is won, then there is ease...
...fresh classroom consciousness of Marx. In West Germany, where West Berlin's Neukölln factory quarters became so hostile to anti-Viet Nam demonstrators last winter that one was badly beaten, S.D.S. activists are trying to reconstruct workers with a missionary effort. Groups of students drop in on worker pubs, strike up conversations over checker matches, and gradually set up small groups that aim to determine their common anticapitalistic grievances. However, with only 50 groups (20 to 60 members each) now functioning, and considerable worker skepticism remaining, their revolution may be a long time coming...
...these, 768, or 68 per cent will receive honors: 215 cum laude in general studies, 302 cum laude in a special field, 198 magna cum laude, 11 magna cum laude with highest honors and 42 summa cum laude. These proportions are as usual and last year's drastic drop in summas awarded (there were only 25 then) has not been repeated...
...start fast, and to break (beat, to the laymen) the other shells immediately after the race begins. What concerns Andersen is their tendency to lose speed as the race wears on. Andersen has clocked his crew over each segment of a race, and the times increased. He calls this drop-off in speed "a bit excessive...