Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dallas, Ben Thomas of the Associated Press wrote, "Hill saved the day for Dallas with his running." The former Yale fullback was picked first by the Cowboys and was to be used as an end, but was switched just before the season's start to halfback...
...next. The minos at l'UNEF, who had become the majos during the war, adopted a "ligne universitaire," their long-awaited dream of making l'UNEF into a student syndicat which would defend student interests through strikes, demonstrations, and occupations of classrooms. Despite consistent attempts at sabotage by the former majos the ligne universitaire initially caught the imagination of the students. But after its aborted attempt to prevent the Sorbonne visit of Prime Minister Segni of Italy, l'UNEF steadily dechned in influence. With 100,000 memoers out of a student population of 250,000 in 1961, l'UNEF shrank...
...back of his banjo were inscriptions by the former owners. One described himself as a champion water skier, and the other as a champion cheeker player. I asked Donovan how he would describe himself. "Champion community builder," he said with a smile...
Gabardine Swine. Fortunately Muggeridge, however weak on God and grace, is brilliantly funny on their adversaries the world, the flesh and the devil-as befits a former editor of Punch. Fiat Nox (let there be night) he sees as the first commandment of the modern world. The result of seeking heaven on earth is hell. "Four freedoms lead to forty times more servitudes," cries Muggeridee, and Savonarola in top form and full throat from the pulpit of the Duomo cried no louder. We are gabardine swine losing life and liberty in the pursuit of happiness. The real modern religion...
...extremely lightly" because the rules of evidence, which the Nazis had scrapped, had been reimposed in the name of justice by the Allies. Most Nazis were soon issued their Persilscheine ("whitewash slips," a name derived from a brand of soap powder). Modern Germany is run by the Persils and former members of another swiftly exonerated group, the Mussnazis (Nazis by necessity). Sad to say, the minority of truly non-Hitlerite Germans have taken little part in the life of West Germany from 1945 until today. "Ohne mich" ("Count me out") was, and is. their slogan, and their withdrawal represents...