Word: eves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee of about 25 students will hold a meeting this afternoon and another one Wednesday. It will make a recommendation to an SDS meeting Thursday night, the eve of Dow's appearance at the Office of Graduate and Career Plans...
...that were not enough, Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee, blew up his own storm on the eve of the Games by demanding that the Alpine competitors paint out the trademarks on their skis. The skiers refused-after all, they get their equipment free from the manufacturers. Eventually, the argument ended in compromise: the competitors agreed to take their skis off before posing for photographs...
...another 1939, and of 1941 show his developing interest. The first includes a lemon painted to look flat, while on an adjacent goblet, whose three-dimensionality is complicated by its transparency, is depicted by juxtaposed planes of light and dark. Here Braque is consciously playing with the eve and its perceptions of boundary, a theme in his work well traceable through the Block holdings...
...statements to the country-a Wilsonian credibility gap that is equal to Lyndon Johnson's. Wilson has heatedly denounced "the defeatist cries, the moaning minnies, the wet editorials," but he seems unable to halt his rapid slide. A new national poll released last week on the eve of Wilson's departure for Washington showed that the Tories are leading the Laborites by 18.3% among the voters-enough to cost Wilson 200 of his 354 seats if elections were held now (Wilson does not have to call them until...
Murder for Money. Johnson, who has spent some 30 years on the farms for murder and robbery, identified one of the skeletons as Jake Jackson, a Negro whom he had helped bury on Christmas Eve, 1946. Prison records indicated that Jackson had "escaped" two days later. Around Labor Day in 1940, he said, "they killed a bunch of them-I'd say about 20." Asked why the men had been murdered, Johnson said: "For money. You need money to make it here." Often he had to pay $2 or $3 a week for protection himself...