Word: foundered
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...example, he advocated "a negotiated outcome" in Afghanistan without once mentioning the Soviet invasion and occupation of that country. His theme was peace through negotiation, and to support it he cited two historical figures who had rarely before appeared in his pantheon of quotable heroes: St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus ("a Spanish soldier who gave up the ways of war for that path of love and peace"), and Mahatma Gandhi. The Indian apostle of nonviolence, Reagan recalled, had said, "If you approached people with trust and affection, you would have tenfold trust and thousandfold affection...
...other two-thirds may not be so quick to join the expanded schedule. Some early-childhood specialists are skeptical of the proposed benefits. Louise Bates Ames, co-founder of the Gesell Institute of Child Development in New Haven, Conn., says that most five-year-olds are physically unready for a full-day program. "It's a sheer matter of fatigue," she contends. "Emotionally they aren't ready either. Five is a 'close-to-home' age, when they like to be with their mothers...
...rabbis, he was trained at home in Russia by his father and received no formal schooling until he entered the University of Berlin. There he earned a Ph.D. in philosophy, becoming as conversant with Kant as with Moses. In 1932 he moved to Boston as chief Orthodox rabbi and founder of a pioneering day school. He later began commuting to teach in New York. A widower, he has two daughters and one son, who is a scholar of Jewish history...
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Crimson, advertising Manager for what is to be Done? Radcliffe Intern; Radcliffe externship program; Junior Varsity Softball; Radcliffe Round Table co-founder...