Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then Eric Gustavson, the steady 6-3 guard from Athens, Ohio, took over, sinking four buckets--two fast break layups and two bombs--to complement Hardy's inside work. Finally, sophomore forward Mike Janczewski entered the fray as sixth man and scored 11 points in six minutes. At the half, Harvard, thanks to coach Bob Harrison's abundant mercy...
...Lady Bird was being feted at a private party, a sit-down dinner for 18, and the President decided to drop by to pick her up. That simple excursion from the Hotel Pierre to an apartment on the West Side turned into a major production, the sort that has frayed Johnson's patience-and is certain to fray that of his successor. As L.B.J. described the caper to friends afterward...
Churchmen do not pretend that there is. "We are not trying to protect these boys," says the Rev. Harold R. Fray Jr., a United Church of Christ pastor who heads Massachusetts' Committee of Religious Concern for Peace. "We are not harboring them against the law. What we are doing is setting up a platform where their ethical and moral convictions can be made public." Adds the Rev. A. Finley Schaef, a hip-talking Methodist pastor in Greenwich Village: "This is a conscience thing, and that is what the church is concerned about, the conscience...
...maze of underground tunnels for quick movement and escape, a third to rest. On a rotation basis, the system allows round-the-clock fighting. If the squad discovers a sizable hole in the defenses, Xu can easily infiltrate a company or even a battalion to join the fray. His troops have played that game all too successfully in recent weeks, moving in and out of the capital, keeping allied defense units on the go, and forcing them to use heavy firepower in densely populated sections of the city...
...state senate in Albany rejected the mayor's original proposal and began to consider a number of compromise plans that would bring neighborhood control of the schools on a gradual basis. In the wake of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville protests, the United Federation of Teachers entered the fray, led by its aggressive president, Albert Shanker, who was jailed for 15 days last winter after leading his union through a three-week citywide strike. At the state capitol, 500 lobbying teachers jammed the corridors. They argued that decentralization would in effect be turning the schools over to demagogues, warned that...