Word: establishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weather conditions were severe for that race, and Harvard is hoping to establish clear dominance over the Huskies this Saturday. Look for Cornell, Penn, and fast-starting Yale as other strong crews...
...other performances were only slightly less galvanizing. Leland Moss played the queer brother with restraint, wisely letting the text, not phony mannerisms, establish that the characer was a homosexual. An outlandish swish would have been out of balance with the other performances, all on the quiet side, but Moss might have been a bit more peevish and shrill in his woman-hating moments. Kenneth McBain gave a controlled and droll performance as Mr. Sloane, not perhaps as sinister as he should be, but always the master of his accent and his deadpan. The four actors were acting well together...
Canada's 6,000,000 French are concentrated in Quebec, whose motto is a meaningful "Je me souviens" (I remember). Originally they meant to establish New France in the New World. With the English conquest of a land that French explorers and Catholic missionaries had opened up, they turned fiercely inward to survive as a minority on a vast English-speaking continent. Ill-educated, church-dominated, cut off by language and often by prejudice from improving themselves, the French Canadians grew ever more provincial. Only after World War II did the "quiet revolution" of the French Canadians take form...
...commission also reiterated the suggestion to revise police department organization that was the core of its first report issued in February. The new system would establish three levels of police officers, insuring that crime investigators were a special college-trained elite...
...success of future programs will hinge on the police department's ability to establish a firm--and possibly sometimes friendly--rapport with the Rangers. This can only happen if the police begin to treat the Rangers fairly and communicate with them as individual youngsters with distinct problems. Getting the confidence of the Rangers will not be easy, especially for police who are, by definition, working at cross-purposes with the gang. Racial and class differences complicate the problem. In addition, a Blackstone Ranger's entire life has taught him to trust no one. Typically a Ranger comments, "Nobody kept...