Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oncoming car only to be hit by a truck coming from the other direction. After the British pound was devalued, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler warned that the dollar was next in line for speculative attack. That warning was actually aimed at Congressman Wilbur Mills in an attempt to gain support for the domestic surtax proposal, but its chief result was to further fan speculation and cause a heavy loss of U.S. gold. Last month's unprecedented visit by Treasury Under Secretary Frederick Deming to a meeting in Basel of the Bank for International Settlements, a clubby group of bankers...
...cent of the population Negro and a dozen counties capable of electing Negro officials, fair elections would not necessarily result in any Negroes on the delegation. It is selected by a statewide convention whose delegates are in turn chosen at the county level. Negroes could not possibly gain a majority of the state's 82 counties...
Making a three-day sweep from Danang to the Delta, Michigan's Governor George Romney toured Viet Nam last week to learn more about the war, cheer the troops and gain some public exposure that might do him no harm on the home front. He was no stranger to the territory, of course. The last time he ventured into Viet Nam "in South Korea" and later declared that U.S. officials had "brainwashed" him. This time Romney came away convinced that he had "a firm grasp of the situation. I had the background and knowledge to dig in and penetrate...
Higgins is a stand-up goal tender and five inches taller than Direcks. Weiland, wants to see that he can do against the toughers opposition R.P.I. should provide and rest the slumping Direcks until he can gain back his confidence...
...Coles says, black children are already learning the values and fears of the color caste system. Yet Coles found that, in general, those Negro children who were thrust into the front ranks of the integration crises came through their experiences without serious emotional wounds. In fact, many seemed to gain strength from their awareness of the historical significance of their roles. Acts of courage by ordinary people were common. Coles could find no definite correlation between certain psychological types and civil rights activists. Rather, he feels that it was some interaction between person and situation that determined what form behavior...