Word: gain
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...General Factor. Republicans, meanwhile, sense a widespread desire for new political leadership-a phenomenon one Congressman calls the "fresh-face syndrome." Besides strong gains in Congress, the G.O.P. is counting on capturing several key governorships-California, Minnesota, Arkansas -as a way of chemically rejuvenating their party. Richard Nixon calls the election "the most important of my lifetime," confidently predicts a G.O.P. gain of 40 House seats, three in the Senate, six governorships. To this, Vice President Hubert Humphrey replies: "I'll bet Nixon a 20-lb. Minnesota turkey against a dinner at any restaurant he chooses that his predictions...
There was nothing wrong with the Army defense on the play that set up Notre Dame's first touchdown; Seymour simply took two defenders up in the air with him, came down with the ball all to himself for a 19-yd. gain. North Carolina's Tar Heels tried a new tack altogether: absolutely blanket Seymour and hang the cost. It got pretty expensive. With Jim keeping three North Carolina defenders busy on one side of the field, the Irish gleefully ran up and down the other side and scored two quick touchdowns. The Tar Heels gave...
...first changed their minds very quickly," says Karen Bulgar, a white Wellesley High senior. Brookline Teacher Robert McCarthy concedes that "the big misconception we had was that the Negro students would all be alike-yet it is impossible to make generalizations about them." That is precisely the gain seen by a Negro mother in Rochester, who says: "Now Irondequoit people can see that some of us are good learners, some not so good, some shy, some full of confidence-just as is true for other people...
Chain Mail & Battle-Axes. What the book proves in pictures is that, while in the clash of two peoples both may lose, in the clash of two cultures both may gain. When 12,000 Arab troops landed at Gibraltar in A.D. 711, the invaders brought along with their scimitars a civilization that was far in advance of anything found in Europe during the Dark Ages. With the conquering Moslem armies came algebra, advances in medicine, chess, astronomy, paper instead of papyrus. Compared with heavy Romanesque, their architecture seemed to defy gravity, lifting lacy ceilings that appeared to float like airy...
Colgate did not gain a single yard through the air while defeating Brown, 48-7, but picked up 423 yards on the ground. Ivy Standings W L Harvard 3 0 Dartmouth 2 1 Yale 2 1 Cornell 2 1 Princeton 2 1 Penn 1 2 Columbia 0 3 Brown...