Word: fold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place, as soon as possible. The Russians, on the other hand, want to wait until the Vatican Council is over. All the churches agree that one condition for the dialogue is acceptance by Rome of the Orthodox as equal partners, not as schismatics petitioning for a return to the fold. The delegates also agreed unanimously to form a committee of prelates who would inform the Pope of the conference's proposed ground rules for the discussion...
...solution to the two-fold problem might be to increase the fine for dropping a fifth course--to, let us say, $50. This might well discourage the speculative use of fifth courses as "wild cards," without frightening off those who would genuinely benefit from a fifth course but who do not care to wager as much as $230 on their ability to complete...
...only the Business School was Nixonian. Yet in the Senatorial straw poll of 1962 Harvard College went back to the fold and endorsed the unsuccessful George Cabot Lodge by a 52% majority...
Unfortunately, even a runner as good as Hewlett can't be sure of winning late in the season, when the big meets roll around. And when Walter's confidence has wavered, he has been known to fold. Last fall, after winning the bulk of the Crimson's dual meets and breaking the course record at Franklin Park, he finished 16th in the Heptagonals...
Those broad grins fold his face into a mass of wrinkles, reminders that the ex-Governor's life was once hard and impoverished. That penchant for shoulder-slapping and small talk reflect the Babbitt-like boosterism which brought him business success during the Depression. That briskly polite, nearly oriental, bow which introduces each handshake reminds one that Volpe's recent years have been graced with comfort and prestige...