Word: fends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Editor William Forbis, who edited this week's cover story on the headmaster at Andover, was heard to remark recently that editors have little trouble warding off all kinds of discreet pressure from ''big business and big politics,'' but he found it harder to fend off people-including a number of his own colleagues-who, without the least subtlety, were eager to get their own prep school mentioned in the cover story. A good many of their schools turn up in the story, and would have anyway...
Seven Hours from Death. Why this great crusade? Paul Crump's road to crime is no different from that traveled by hundreds of other convicts. One of 13 children raised in the squalor of Chicago's Negro ghetto, Crump learned to fend for himself after his father deserted the family when he was six. He dropped out of high school after only one year, graduated rapidly from stealing bicycles to armed robbery, for which he was dumped into the Illinois state penitentiary for three years when just...
...help that Manley's forced-draft programs have turned a $9,800,000 treasury surplus into a $115 million debt. Jamaica can no longer count on London for money, having dropped out of the West Indies Federation, leaving the nine other British islands in the Caribbean to fend for themselves...
...little girl is most acutely felt. One successful counterattack against the trend is group action. In Charlotte, N.C., for example, some parents have organized a Parents' League to set up "recommendations" for social activities from the sixth grade on. By mutually standing fast, they have been able to fend off that age-old blackmail of the young, "Well, Susie's mother lets her . . ." Sixth-grade parties are all male or all female, and they end by 9 p.m. Seventh-graders can learn ballroom dancing, but social dances and dating are discouraged. Double dating is allowed in the ninth...
...once he was emperor, Wilhelm decided he could fend for himself. He grew his famous bristling mustache, swaggered more than ever. For company he surrounded himself with a crew of homosexuals who found politics tedious...