Word: gain
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During the Civil War, the peace churches in the U.S. joined forces to gain Government recognition of the rights of conscientious objectors. In 1940, they again cooperated to set up the National Service Board for Religious Objectors, which arranged for assignment of C.O.s to Government-approved civilian jobs in time of war. The Mennonites, Brethren and Quakers accounted for more than half of the 10,230 men who were conscientious objectors during World...
...success. "Football is not a contact sport," Daugherty tells his players. "It is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport." In their collision with Ohio State last month, the Spartans held the Buckeyes to minus-22 yds. rushing-the first time they have ever failed to gain on the ground. Michigan, the defending Big Ten champion, got even less: minus-51 yds. Last week the Spartans allowed Iowa a grand total of 86 yds., 85 of them in the air, never let the Hawkeyes within 20 yds. of their goal line. That was enough to bring...
...delivered from my own inner darkness and to turn it into light, from the terrible bellowing ancestors in me and to turn them into human beings. That was why I invoked great figures who had successfully undergone the most elevated and difficult of ordeals: I wanted to gain courage by seeing the human soul's ability to triumph over everything...
With Collins applying public pressure, Mrs. Hicks would become the beleagured, last-ditch defender of the "neighborhood school," hoping to gain control of the city's finances in order to save the little white children of South Boston. Another road to profitable martyrdom would be a losing fight to repeal the Imbalance Bill...
...period, Leo went over right guard from the five for a touchdown. Maury Dullea's conversion was off to the left, but Harvard still had a chance to gain a tie--until Sadoski's incomplete pass a few minutes later...