Word: establish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Becky Tung, who is ranked number one on the squad, said the team's real aim is to establish itself and to prove that last year's performance "wasn't just lucky...
...chief reason is probably sophomore sensation Hackett. As a freshman, all the Olympic silver medalist from Yonkers, N.Y., did was set an American record in the 1000-yd. freestyle, establish four University records, win three individual events (all in record time) at Eastern to finish as the meet's high point scorer, and cap it all off by making the finals in three events at NCAA's in Long Beach--one of them a classic head-to-head bout with All-World UCLA freshman Brian Goodell in the 1650-yd. free, which Hackett just barely lost...
English 140b, which has an enrollment of 280 this term, has traditionally been one of the most popular courses on campus. Bate "seems to establish a sense of intimacy in such a large course. Many people who don't take the course come to the lectures," Bando said...
...linkage. Some groused last week that Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman had "acted without authority" in their zeal to reach a settlement with the Egyptians in Washington. Later the Cabinet was the scene of an unusually angry argument over a plan by hawkish Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon to establish a big new Israeli settlement in Gaza. Many of Sharon's colleagues thought this a bad idea anyway; practically all of them were angry that his aides had leaked the details of the plan while the peace talks were at a delicate stage in Washington...
Americans do not always like to acknowledge class differences, even though one of the purposes of a more invidious etiquette for centuries has been precisely to establish one's own social superiority. "I once said something about the lower class in the hearing of my mother," recalls Social Chronicler Stephen Birmingham...