Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These liberals are either apartisan or activists deeply comitted to the electoral process. The McCarthy campaign, founded on student concern with the draft and the war, served to politicize the apartisan groups and gain nearly complete support from the usually factionalized activist group...
Harvard went undefeated through the District I Playoffs, whipping B.U., Connecticut, and Providence College in the round-robin eliminations to gain one of eight positions in the NCAA championships...
Indeed, much important reporting is done by writers who have taken on new identities to gain insight into the problems of others. Seldom has the American Negro's plight been as convincingly portrayed as in Black Like Me; its white author, John Howard Griffin, darkened his skin and spent a month passing as a black in the South...
Double Strategy. In Washington's view, Hanoi's negotiators at the Paris parley are conducting a double strategy, seeking to sow dissension between the U.S. and its nervous Saigon ally and simultaneously to gain a respite from U.S. bombing. During the first week of talks, the North Vietnamese seemed to make some headway with that strategy...
...massive U.S. military commitment was a blunder that threatened catastrophe. He had helped plant the roots of Johnson's Viet Nam policy during the Kennedy Administration, and he acknowledged it: "But past error is no excuse for its own perpetuation. Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live...