Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ultimate success, I promise you that you will fail. You must have perfect confidence in yourself." If a student complains he is not learning it, Mrs. Wood will say "You aren't trying hard enough." To doubt the party dogma, the absolute rightness of the Wood technique, is to fight the system. Fighting the system means you do not really want to learn it, after all, you are wasting valuable energy. If you take your speeding seriously, it can be rather frightening...
...youth works from a less "enlightened" frame of reference than downtown bureaucrats. The Ranger's slogan--"We the people of Blackstone, in what we do we do the best"--evokes the following comment from a local youth officer: "Their slogan makes sense. What they do best is shoot, stab, fight, intimidate, extort money from businesses, and threaten little kids into paying them dues." Bullets do not discriminate, and when the policeman puts his life in dangers every day he has little use for the "sociological nonsense" taught at school...
...organization decides that they stand to gain more patron age under a Democratic administration. Lindsay is convinced that he could win an overwhelming victory in a Republican primary even without the endorsement of the party bosses, and that the November election would become a mere formality. But a primary fight could very well hurt his standing as a national candidate...
...Underdog. The financial and power resources of the ruling Directory of generals make any civilian an automatic underdog. But with the world watching closely to see if the first free presidential election in South Viet Nam's history will really be democratic, a civilian with the will to fight could make a good run for it. Three civilian candidates have already thrown their hats into the ring. Phan Khac Suu, 62, onetime Chief of State and now speaker of the Constituent Assembly that framed the nation's new constitution, was the first to announce. A Southerner and something...
Seeing was the only way to believe what was going on in the National League last week. Who would have figured that the Pittsburgh Pirates and the San Francisco Giants, the two teams most experts figure to fight it out for the pennant, would rank No. 7 and No. 10? That Pittsburgh's Matty Alou, who led the National League in batting last year with a .342 average, would be hitting .217? That San Francisco Pitcher Juan Marichal, winner of 93 games over the past four seasons, would be sporting an 0-3 record and an earned-run average...