Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign in terms of his anthropology major. Norm, his assistant, was more characteristic. A few months earlier he had been a 5.0 student at the University of Illinois; he was now on pro. Dave only knew two kids that had joined the campaign in hopes of future political gain. The majority brought only the committed dedication that enabled them to survive on a salary of seven dollars a day. They were punctilious in disciplining themselves. Those who dated interracially were asked not to wear McCarthy buttons, not in Indiana. Beer wasn't allowed at parties for the volunteers...
...tennis team will travel to Dartmouth Wednesday for its final dual match of the season. The Crimson netmen must triumph in this crucial match to gain a share of the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis League Crown...
...credentials make him worth listening to-wild though his theory may be. The FBI, he says, is looking for the wrong man. James Earl Ray, alias Eric Starvo Gait, was indeed in on the assassination plot-which Capote believes was carried out by "leftists, not rightists," for political gain. Ray did not, however, kill Martin Luther King. "I have studied his record very carefully, and in my experience with interviewing what I call homicidal minds [Capote has talked at length with 100 murderers in the past nine years], he's simply a man not capable of this particular kind...
Newest thing in outdoor knockabouts is an informal hybrid that has yet to gain a name. Stubby, raffish, minimal, it is obviously designed for sport...
Some economists dispute the overall importance of cheaper labor in other countries. Still, workers earning as little as 150 an hour have helped South Korea gain a big foothold in transistor manufacture-a business that is also growing in such low-pay spots as Hong Kong and Mexico. Foreign countries have grabbed half of the domestic movie-camera market, and all but two U.S. manufacturers (Kodak and Bell & Howell) have dropped out of the picture. Cummins now sells most of the diesel-engine output of its British plant in the U.S., while all of RCA's tape recorders...