Word: footings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uncertain state of mind. It does not show a firmly committed mind that realizes that the war is, in some absurd simplification, only 60 per cent wrong. If you believe that the war is wrong, it becomes totally wrong when you decide to act. You cannot march with one foot in a YAF parade and the other in an SDS demonstration. Therefore, once the decision to fight is made. it is made absolutely. If that decision is not made, the resulting inaction is equally absolute...
...Crimson sailors were tied for second, and only one point out of first, after the first day of competition in the 44-foot yawls. Captain Abbott Reeve said that mechanical failures were one reason for Harvard's drop to third on the second...
...group spent much of the summer rebuilding a 300-foot synagogue, the largest early synagogue known and repairing a Roman gymnasium, an out standing example of the Baroque characteristics of Roman architecture...
...restoring the 300-foot synagogue, the archaeologists rebuilt the doors and the colonnade of the forecourt. They also reassembled marble furniture, reconstructed a red-and-white frieze, and installed a copy of a three-foot fountain that will operate when modern piping is completed...
Treasury Secretary David Kennedy is becoming an increasing source of embarrassment to the Nixon Administration. His chronic foot-in-mouth habits, which are costly in terms of both dollars and prestige, began to be revealed the moment that he was appointed. Last December, Kennedy said that he wanted "to keep every option open," including the option of asking for an increase in the price of gold-and that set off a new flurry of gold speculation on the London market. In June and again in July, he said that the Administration might be forced to consider putting controls on wages...