Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-communist assumptions, then we are not talking about the same animal. For me, reason and rationality are useful intellectual tools for uncovering the truth and for thinking effectively. Reason has never been for me an end-all, be-all sort of thing: when rationality and pragmatism gain too iron a hold over my life, then it's usually time to get a little "irrational" and break their grip. In short, I don't worship "reason" any more than I go out and prostrate myself before the MBTA subway because it transports me as efficiently through the Massachusetts underworld...
...Harvard 0--Columbia O. Harvard below a golden opportunity to gain an edge over Penn and Brown last Saturday. Crimson stars Ahmed Yehia, Solomon Gomez, and Peter Bogovich missed many opportunities to score. Now the Crimson must top Cornell to remain in title contention. The Lions must beat Yale this weekend or settle for second division in the league...
...problem is that a presidential candidate needs more than a popular plurality to win the election-he must also gain a clear majority in the Electoral College, which now has 538 electors. The Twelfth Amendment (1804) requires separate electoral votes for President and Vice President. But this originally clarifying rule has long been a potential source of confusion. If the popular winners lack electoral majorities, the House selects a President from among the three candidates who have received the most votes in the Electoral College. The Senate Dicks a Vice President in the same fashion, but considers only the leading...
...York lawyer argues that even Nelson Rockefeller could wind up in the White House. This theory has a bizarre plausibility. Assume that Wallace carries only four Deep South states with a combined total of less than 43 electoral votes. As one result, both Nixon and Humphrey fail to gain the needed 270 majority in the Electoral College. As another, New York's 43 electors-chosen under Nixon's G.O.P. banner but not constitutionally bound to vote for him-revive old loyalties, cast their ballots for Rockefeller. Heeding the Constitution, the Electoral College sends the names of Nixon, Humphrey...
...like an old trouper," he ended on a rousing burst of old-fashioned socialist oratory: "It is the job of every member of this party to join with their government in defending the bastions we have won from those who would seek to drive us out for their own gain. It is no defensive posture for which I ask. I charge you now to go over to the attack...