Word: establish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...role, as well as his first encounter with that other genius, Aristophanes. It was a thrilling experience to watch, during rehearsals, these two giants of humor and hilarity fight against each other for predominance-striking at each other with totally different weapons of method, language, mentality, even decency-to establish a comic point that was, fundamentally, common to them both...
During World War II, he became chief of the Explosives Division of the National Defense Research Committee. He established and ran the Explosives Research Laboratory at Bruceton, Pa., and helped to establish a second laboratory, for underwater explosives research, at Woods Hole...
...reply to the Ivy presidents, Califano wrote that a statement issued Dec. 9 by Attorney General Ramsey Clark and Hershey had already tried to establish "that lawful protest activities, whether directed to the draft or other national issues, do not subject registrants to the acceleration or other special administrative action by the Selective Service System...
Until The Man Who Loved Children was republished to considerable acclaim in 1965, Australia's Christina Stead was relatively little known and appreciated in the U.S. The four novellas in The Puzzleheaded Girl should firmly establish her reputation as a writer who can make the familiar meaningful without gimmickry. It is not without some reason that her work has been compared to that of Nabokov and Isak Dinesen. Her essential theme in The Puzzleheaded Girl is rootlessness. Her characters are continually trying to flee themselves. Europeans come to America only to find that they and their new country...
...iron censorship on the press, and sent hundreds of Greeks to prison on such charges as "speaking ill of the authorities" and playing the music of out lawed leftist composers. Constantine waited, hoping for the proper moment to spring a countercoup that would oust the junta and re-establish parliamentary rule in Greece...