Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exciting organization. "We're just scratching the surface," says Padnos, who wants to double the size of his volunteer staff to 100 lawyers this year. "There are still plenty of people being victimized for every one we help." But the weekend lawyers are at least beginning to fight back against those who once took advantage of the poor without risk of either exposure or interference...
...most efficient way for ROTC to fight the movement to take away its academic credit is to liberalize its curriculum. Instead of asking faculties to accredit military courses, in fact, the Pentagon plans to accredit more academic courses for ROTC, such as economics, psychology and political science. Purely soldierly skills may increasingly be taught at summer camps rather than on campuses. The problem, though, is whether such compromises will satisfy the ROTC's fervent critics. The trouble is that more and more campus idealists seem to view all armies as evil, including armies that defend free societies...
...game were easy enough to grasp: with men and women alternating, two teams of five skaters each circle a banked oval track in a tight cluster. Then one or two skaters from each team break from the pack and attempt to score points by "jamming" or lapping opponents, who fight them off with elbow jabs, strangleholds and something called the "jumping-hip block." Points are scored by passing members of the opposing team...
...Gulf & Western used them to pay for acquisitions. Issued in moderate amounts, warrants may have no significant effect on a corporation's finances. But Manhattan's General Host Corp., which has only 2.6 million shares of common stock, last month offered 14 million warrants in its successful fight to win control of Armour & Co., whose...
Like many an autocratic schoolmarm, Miss Brodie is not in love with men, she is enamored of power. To her, Mussolini and his Fascisti offer humanity's best hope. She sends one girl packing to fight in Spain for the Falangists-where she is killed. Her favorite informant (Pamela Franklin) turns against her and squeals to the authorities. "Assassin!" shrieks Miss Brodie, and the echoing walls provide a bogus, melodramatic echo...