Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Super Uncle Tom." A Stokely Carmichael or a Rap Brown can talk of honkies -just as white bigots talk of niggers-and an Eldridge Cleaver can shout that "We shall have our manhood. We shall have it, or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain...
...students, however, said that no settlement had been reached with the Brandeis administration. Black spokesman Randal C. Bailey said, "We intend to continue our struggle at Brandeis to gain effective control of the Afro-American Studies Department to be established here...
...reason for their unusual act was not, of course, to gain another superfluous electoral vote for Richard Nixon. In the last election, the fear was that George Wallace would deprive both the other candidates of an electoral majority, leaving him free to decide a winner by bargaining with his votes. By challenging Bailey's vote, O'Hara and Muskie hoped, in the latter's words, to "underscore the necessity for a complete reform of the system by constitutional amendment...
...economic expansion has been the fastest in Europe and second in the world only to Japan's. In the past three years, production of goods and services has risen an average 5% a year, to $72 billion in 1968, and is expected by the European Economic Commission to gain another 6% this year. It is true that Italy is growing fast partly because it has considerable catching up to do; Italy's economy remains one-twelfth as big as the U.S.'s economy and half the size of West Germany...
...ROTC to drop 58 per cent, one of the largest losses in the nation. As a matter of interest, Harvard's freshman enrollment in Army ROTC dropped 37 per cent this year, also more than the national average; but the loss was more than compensated by a record-shattering gain of 308 per cent in Military Science III enrollment--largely students from the Harvard Law School...