Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said they knew better. Agents from B.O.S.S., New York City's Bureau of Special Services, had infiltrated the organization and clocked the Minutemen's every move for nearly a year. They reported that the would-be guerrillas had crashed the weekend maneuvers of reserve military units to gain experience and, possibly, arms. Planted officers participated in field maneuvers designed to perfect homemade bombs and hone the group's commando tactics. In one exercise, a Minuteman was observed firing cans of peas from a mortar at a pasture full of cows, while a forward lookout called back range...
Christians who would follow him to gain eternal life...
...speaking, Pike "went over the wall. I was a free guy. It was glorious. I was vaguely a humanist, caring about good causes and truth, but the religious question didn't concern me. I wasn't antichurch; I just dropped out." He went on from U.S.C. to gain a doctorate in jurisprudence at Yale, and then to Washington to work for the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1938. "I was a fervent humanist when I went to work for the New Deal," Pike says. "I had a real sense of cause, of saving the widows and orphans from...
...story of surgical failure." But that is not a reflection on the surgeon, rather it is a reflection on the patient's anatomy. An unathletic man like the President is likely to have relatively weak belly muscles, and L.B.J.'s have been further weakened by his weight gain of almost 20 Ibs. in the past year. The intestines and other internal organs, exerting pressure against the muscle wall, found a weak spot at the drain site and forced an opening. A piece of intestine (it may be either the large or small bow el) has pushed through. Finger...
Then, trailing 20-18, quarterback George Lalich tried to gain a tie by passing for two points to end Chris Mortenson. But Mortenson caught the ball with one foot out of the end zone. After that the Tigers held...