Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evers knows he must gain substantial white support and promises: "We're going to represent all of our people, black and white, 'cause we're all God's children." But the prospect is that whites, who scattered their votes in last week's election, will coalesce to defeat Evers in the runoff...
...Sofia. Even if the Rumanians finally decide to go, Ceausescu's decision to pull out of last week's meeting left the Kremlin in a quandary. Though it now has no serious opposition to its plans for a top-level meeting, it also has less to gain than ever if it occurs. Once intent on isolating Maoism at a summit meeting, Soviet Marxists now stand in increasing danger of isolating only themselves-from a growing number of third parties that are tired of taking orders from Moscow. Since many national Communist parties fear that Moscow would...
...gain insight into possibly harmful effects, Oyama has been raising mice and rats in 4-and 8½-ft. radius centrifuges that create artificial gravities from twice to 4.7 times normal and spin continuously except for brief intervals when they are shut down to clean cages and replenish food supplies. When the test animals are finally removed and returned to the normal gravity of earth, their experience is roughly equivalent to that of astronauts suddenly subjected to weightlessness or to a fraction of terrestrial gravity...
...begin with, North Vietnam's Community Party (DLD) will probably emerge from the holocaust with unparalleled authority and support. As the political structure presently organizing mass resistence activity it stands to gain most from popular anger with the U.S. The objective of fighting the aggressor seems likely to mesh inextricably with the party's political goals...
Today he will gain further evidence for his case against Harvard. Shrout, one of the champions who couldn't stay on top, will very likely be Schollander's competition. Last year Don edged him out in the 50-yard freestyle. This year his victory could come in the 50, 200, 500, or 1000-year free, or all four...