Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left with in the end is a big train wreck." Other party pros argue that the primary fight will guarantee a bigger turnout of Democratic voters in November and a stronger commitment to the party's nominee among those who do turn out. Says Kentucky Senator Wendell Ford: "It's like cats in the night. You think they are fighting and killing each other, but all you get later on is more cats...
...foolhardiness-but to illustrate how little effect the danger of assassination has had on presidential candidates' behavior, even after two decades of violence that have seen the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the crippling of George Wallace and two near misses on Gerald Ford...
...most frustrating thing is that you are dealing with a randomness. There is no knowing when, how or if." Or why or who. Researchers say that assassins in U.S. history have typically been short, white, unmarried men with mental disturbances dating from their childhood. True, but both attempts on Ford's life were made by women...
Because educational instruction became co-ed in 1943, the merger would have no direct effect on professors' lifestyles, which explains their disinterest. Franklin L. Ford, dean of the College until the end of 1969, remembers bemused Faculty members at the time asking, "What does it have to do with...
...Faculty did debate--somewhat--the effects of a one-to-one female ratio, which the administration had predicted as a possible outcome of the merger. Though no Faculty member explicitly opposed the merger--with the exception of what Ford calls a few "curmudgeonly old misogynists"--many professors worried that the push to balance the ratio could force a decrease in the number of male applicants accepted. Reducing the male student body spelled disaster to Pusey who declared at the February Faculty meeting: "Call this male chauvinist if you like. There are many people here who would be unhappy...