Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unreality deepened when Albert Jenner, present chairman of the same committee, disclosed that in 1933 Morrissey went to Georgia, where it was then possible for a resident to gain admission to the bar without an examination. Morrissey, then 23, had already dropped out of law school in Massachusetts, had a try at the bar exam nonetheless, and failed it. In Athens, Morrissey obtained a Georgia diploma from a two-man outfit, now defunct, called the Southern Law School. Jenner called it a "diploma mill." Armed with this credential and testimonials from both of his teachers, Morrissey was admitted to practice...
...before it gets its head up. Top Republicans talk publicly of picking up 40 House seats next year; they would happily settle for 20, which would bring the Democrats down to a still overwhelming majority of 275 to 160. Only by a turnover that surpasses imagination could the G.O.P. gain a bare majority of the Senate; Republicans would have to beat all 19 Democratic Senators up for re-election next year while holding the 14 Republican seats that will be risked. In their field of greatest strength, the governorships, the Republicans conceivably could add half a dozen...
...shook his finger at me. Just the syllables that make up "1968" brought a faint smile to his face, as if to say "you're not going to catch me this time." But it came out as, "I'm only looking to 1966. It's imperative we gain in Congress. I'd say we can get 40 seats in the House." Then--still smoothly--he revealed himself: "I'm going to have a full schedule in '66. I'll devote a lot of time to it." Without throwing a hat in the ring, without testing his strength in something like...
After Grant had run for three yards, McCluskey rolled around right end - apparently for a fair gain. But when he was hit the ball squirted out of his hands. Dullea recovered, but Harvard was faced with third down and eleven yards...
...possibly settle this conflict alone. India regards the creation of a peace-keeping force as the first step towards a plebiscite, and thus has refused to allow more than the present fifty men to patrol the thousand mile border. Shastri can lose nothing by remaining obstinate, and may gain American support for his insistence on keeping the status...