Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born in Hupei province, Lin has the middle-class background common to many Chinese Communist leaders. The son of a small textile-mill operator, he received a fair elementary education and, choosing a military career, enrolled at Canton's Whampoa Military Academy-where his headmaster was an officer named Chiang Kaishek. His rise was swift; he took command of an army corps at 22. Lin was a leader of the Long March of 1934-35, in which the Communist army escaped destruction in southern China at the hands of Chiang Kais-hek's Kuomintang forces by fighting...
...women, neither of whom were affiliated with Harvard, were admitted to Cambridge City Hospital this morning, according to hospital officials, who termed their condition fair...
...been advocating that the methods of their selection could be made more representative. Instead of running as part of the stockholders' nominations, student candidates could run in a separate election. In this way any students interested in running for a seat on the board of directors would have a fair chance. To insure a certain continuity, the directors could devise a system of staggered elections and two-year terms...
...conceded, because "Seminarian Ries contributed much less to the convention drama than did the city's policemen. He just lay there and bled, while they went on to even greater deeds." The American struck back in an editorial, calling Royko "an overworked humorist" who apparently believes that "demanding fair trials for policemen just shows you're prejudiced...
...market over the next eight years), the U.S. still seems likely to build an SST. The Concorde, for which airlines have taken 74 "options," will probably reap the first harvest, because it is scheduled to be in service by 1971. Unless Nixon has an unanticipated change of heart, a fair bet is that the U.S. SST will be airborne...