Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard "eggheads" entered the fray about a month ago when Mark DeWolfe Howe, professor of Law, sent out a letter in which he called Ted Kennedy an "impudent young man," and said that he would support McCormack's candidacy...
...teachers' union was the hottest item on the agenda at the annual N.E.A. convention in Denver. Charged Executive Secretary William G. Carr: "Forces of significant scope and power are considering measures which could destroy the association." Carr was alluding to Big Labor money, which now has entered the fray. A half-million dollars from the Auto Workers and other unions went into the organization campaign among the New York teachers, he claimed, arguing that labor is now trying to make up for declining blue-collar membership by taking in white-collar teachers, who otherwise might stick with the "professional...
...Wednesday morning the doors of the Unitarian Church opened. The crowd rushed in. Some came with boxes, some with shopping bags, some with only their bare hands. They clawed, pushed, shoved. Sweet dowagers fought burly sophomores; professionals, amateurs, spectators, and bystanders joined the fray And all for old books and old Bryn Mawr...
With about seven minutes to go, Pete Kelley entered the fray for the Crimson with a devasting effect. Seconds after checking in he hit a set shot from 20 feet out. This was followed with another net-splitter, even more beautiful, from a greater distance...
...capital city of Vientiane last week. Soviet Ambassador Aleksandr Abramov was telling whoever would listen that "peace"-meaning Western retreat-is necessary in Laos because, should hostilities start again. Red China would enter the fray to ensure a Communist victory. For the West, it represents a Hobson's choice: surrender Laos by default, or be prepared to send in troops to hold at least the Mekong River line as a bulwark for what is left of free Southeast Asia...