Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government, watching carefully, sensed a major political blunder. The season had only five weeks to go, and the 50,000 members of the league-leading "Racing" club were furious. So were backers of the second-place "River Plate" club (nicknamed Los Millonarios because of the club's free-handed spending for players). So were the "Boca Juniors" (No. 1 fan: President Juan Perón). So was nearly everybody else...
...rotochute is carried inside the rocket with the blades folded back. Blown free at the top of the rocket's trajectory, it falls rapidly in the near-vacuum 60 to 100 miles up. When it reaches the denser atmosphere below, it straightens out and begins to revolve. The blades open. Spinning like a maple seed, the rotochute slows down and lands its load of instruments at a safe 27 m.p.h...
...students expect 50 western rooters to show up for the broadcast, at 50 cents a head. The money covers only refreshments, since Tidewater Associated has agreed to pipe the play-by-play across the continent free of charge...
...such terms Agnes Nieman, widow of the founder of the Milwaukee Journal, had set up a fund in memory of her husband. Harvard was left a free hand under the grant to set up the program as it saw fit. What the University has accomplished in a decade is unique in both education and journalism...
...prevent. Refusal, for any reason, to allow direct investigation by students of the food they eat or the rooms in which they live is a violation of student rights. The constitution of the Student Council, approved by the Dean's Office, has always specifically stated the right of free investigation. Moreover, Bender, the man who suggests the new regulation, told the Council at its first meeting of the fall that its chief function and value was as a "free investigatory and deliberative body," which has made some reports of "extraordinary significance" to University policy. Remove the freedom, and you undermine...