Word: eve
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easy to exaggerate Procaccino's mistakes. One the whole, his failure to parlay an early lead into an election-eve cinch was built into the works of the campaign. Procaccino's record is undistinguished and on several counts deeply vulnerable, thus muting the impact of his attacks on the Lindsay Administration...
Leonard vowed strict enforcement of civil rights laws, and he made a creditable start. Under his direction, the Civil Rights Division has filed 33 lawsuits against segregation in public accommodations and 15 against discrimination in housing. Last week-perhaps to assuage critics on the eve of his Supreme Court appearance-the division asked a federal court in Atlanta to compel Georgia to integrate its public schools by the start of the 1970-71 year...
...casualties of the peaceful and orderly Moratorium Day activities was Clark Kerr, former president of the University of California. As he addressed an Indiana University audience on the eve of M-day, counseling nonviolence, someone turned off the lights in the lecture hall. A figure in a gaudy Halloween costume and mask dashed in from a side door and hurled a custard pie into Kerr's face. He scored a direct hit, then raced away. (Collared and later unmasked by police, the masquerader, a onetime student radical, was arrested.) Dr. Kerr calmly removed his glasses and wiped them clean...
...eve of World War II. An art history major at Yale, he spent a summer working at the Met. Five years later, he abandoned his Ph.D. thesis to spearhead the Met's contemporary arts activities. His criterion for a work of art: "Memorability and a visceral physical reaction. For some people it's in the heart, for others in the throat. Sometimes you might even throw...
...Most Harvard graduates, however, do not eve plan on going to non-profession al graduate schools unless they are pretty sure of getting through without being drafted." said...