Word: fold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shown us. For thousands of years, there have been many movements and forces which did not conform to Torah standards. Yet only one factor has united Jews through the dark centuries of the exile in every corner of the world-a belief in Torah. Anyone who left the Torah fold was inevitably swallowed up by a Jew's eternal enemy, assimilation. Rabbi Reines may want to do his own thing and still consider it Judaism, but will his grandchildren...
...teetotaling church deacon (which he is). Wooden at 61 still stresses the coaching tenets he learned at Purdue under the late Ward ("Piggie") Lambert: "Get the players in the best of condition, and make them believe they are in better condition than our opponents, so they won't fold in the second half. Teach them to execute the fundamentals quickly but without hurrying. Get them to play as a team, always thinking of passing the ball before shooting...
...Republican, but you're my kind of Democrat." Not much later, Mayor Daley also phoned his congratulations. "Politics is no different than sports," the mayor philosophized. "You win 'em and you lose 'em." Having defied the machine and won, Hanrahan returns to the fold with much more power than he had before he was kicked out. Unless he is convicted on criminal charges, he seems likely to beat his Republican opponent in the general election. He is, in fact, in a strong position to succeed Daley...
...never get anyone good unless we have joint appointments. Quite distinguished scholars, white and black, conservative and radical, won't take a job in Afro-American Studies simply because they don't know when student interest in the program will wane and the various departments across the country will fold up." Paterson said...
Finally, someone brings up Indians, the play Scott opens with tonight. The woman sitting next to him, who is directing at the Loeb Ex, asks why the play folded on Broadway. Her tone seems to repeat Walter Kerr's dictum that good plays never fold, or even get bad reviews...