Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chocolates & Chaos. High on the list of Düsseldorfs innovators to gain international recognition over the past decade are Heinz Mack, 36, Otto Piene, 39, and Günther Uecker, 37 (see color pages). The three young "idealists" joined together as the Group Zero in 1958; their aim, according to Uecker, was to create "a white world" out of light, motion and other optical effects, and Zero presaged the founding of half a dozen other experimental groups in as many different countries. Another leader is Painter Gerhard Richter, enigmatic 1960 fugitive from East Germany's socialist realism, whose...
...enemy moved first. It was nevertheless a dangerous situation. All along the Israeli frontier, any trigger-happy soldier on either side could start a major conflagration. In the Gaza Strip, Ahmed Shukairy, the fire-eating boss of the Palestine Liberation Organization-which has nothing to lose and everything to gain from a war with Israel-announced that commando raids on Israel would continue unabated. In the air, with the fighter pilots of Israel, Egypt and Syria on constant patrol, the dangers were perhaps even greater. The Israeli air force last week even fired warning shots at the white U.N. command...
...cowards who refused to face a fight squarely. During British Cavalry Colonel Banastre Tarleton's fiery raids in New York's rebellious upper Westchester County, Rivington's Gazette reported that "the rebel officers and men quitted their jades, and threw themselves over the fences to gain the swamp." Tarleton "returned to the camp of the rebels, burned and destroyed their whole baggage, and . . . several houses." Actually, the "rebel camp" was the town of Bedford-which Tarleton carefully burned to the ground, barns, cattle...
Davis -- a 235 pound tackle at Harvard -- will try to gain a spot as defensive end for the Patriots. Both he and Leo are rather undersized for the positions which they will try to win in the fall...
...asking him what he thought about the war in Vietnam and he gave me this patriotic stuff that it's safe to put out. He asked me how I felt and I said I wasn't sure; I told him that if we were in there to gain something then we were wrong and we should get out. And that's all I said...