Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Gerald Ford was cleared last week of allegations that he had mishandled congressional campaign funds, the relieved President was moved to express hope that now the campaign would rise "to a level befitting the American people." But the campaign level seems more likely to sink than to soar. With only two weeks remaining, millions of voters are still struggling to make up their minds, and Ford and Jimmy Carter have been trying to win them by focusing with increasing acerbity on each other's character and competence...
Ford did that. "The original mistake was mine," he said. "I did not express myself clearly; I admit it." The President also promised to sign a veterans' bill, sought by Polish Americans for 30 years, that would grant medical benefits to Poles and Czechs now living in America who fought under the Allied command in World Wars I and II. Wasting no time, Ford put his signature on the bill in a Rose Garden ceremony, while cameras rolled and ethnic representatives beamed...
Yesterday's disclosure by Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, is therefore most welcome. Epps said that he would ask CHUL to pass a rule that would effectively prohibit HRO from admitting outside members without express permission from Epps or his designated representative. Epps said he would insist that the orchestra accept a minimum of 90 percent Harvard musicians, while aiming for 100 per cent. The proposal is long overdue, and CHUL should accept Epps's suggestion...
Last week's hurricane successfully transformed today's Crimson-Big Green confrontation today from a battle of unbeatens into a struggle for survival. While the winner of the New Hampshire war moves into the driver's seat in the Ivy title express, the loser gets shuffled to the back of the bus with no immediate hope of getting out first...
...with People--you could hear the kids on the field singing it as you made your way up one of the six express escalators that whisked you to your final destination without so much as a stop to catch a view of the New York skyline across the river...