Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final battle centered on a series of crippling provisos put forth by Democrat Sam Ervin of North Carolina. Ervin feared that women would suffer hardships and dangers if the amendment passed. He tried to limit its scope to allow existing protective legislation to stand after passage. Ervin raised the specter of women "sent into combat, where they will be slaughtered or maimed by the bayonets, the bombs, the bullets, the hand grenades, the mines, the napalm, the poison gas and the shells of the enemy." Illinois' Adlai Stevenson III replied: "What we are doing is enunciating a principle...
...immediately answered "sharp." "Of all her excellences her special talent lies in individual teaching. Of the whole department she has the most summas and turns out the best graduate students. She seems to know just how far she can push someone and make them do their best; she calls forth just a little more than the person thought he had in them." Some of the students survey these abilities from a different perspective. "There are some people who spend their time in Widener trying to hide from her," one of them confided, "they stick their noses around every corner first...
...Cabora Bassa construction site. Comes the day when Banda is supposed to land at Cabora Bassa, Radio South Africa was shocked to admit that his helicopter could not land because "terrorist" activity had created a security problem. The following day he was supposed to have lunch at so-forth-and-so-on Officers Club, and they had to admit that he was forced to dine on a boat because the "terrorists" had created a security problem on the land and they couldn't guarantee his safety...
...administration continues to sacrifice education, at all levels, to cost-accounting, it is clear that the undergraduates are just as severely threatened as the graduate students--if not more. The particular policy set forth by Dean Jones that led graduate students to unionize beginning some two weeks ago was in no way an isolated decision on the part of the administration. Perceiving a need to cut costs, the administration once again decided to do so at the expense of the most poorly paid of the teaching staff. This may be seen to relate to administrative policy, so far successful...
They were perhaps the first honest words that Clifford Irving had uttered publicly about the substance of the case. After months of embroidered tabulations-tales of secret tapings in Mexico, an "autobiography" poured forth at mysterious rendezvous in hotel rooms and parked cars-Irving stood in U.S. District Court in Manhattan's Foley Square last week and confessed in a subdued voice: "I conspired to convince the McGraw-Hill Book Company that I was in communication with Howard Hughes, and in fact...