Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dean's reply, delivered late in May, was almost totally negative. Ford and Elder rejected the pay increase outright. They offered two new proposals on the junior-senior rate differential, both of which meant that the teaching fellows might lose as much as they would gain. Only with respect to work load measurement were the deans conciliatory, and even there they would accept only adjustments within the old system...
...order to gain access to the President's inner thoughts, however, the Faculty members have decided to pay the price of giving their community the silent treatment. Their unfortunate decision to emulate Mr. Johnson's notorious behavior suggests that their objections to the war are hardly as serious or sincere as they would have us believe...
...said to Rusk at the altar?" runs one gibe. " 'Awright, now stand down, honkey!'" In New York, Black Power Agitator Lincoln Lynch denounced Rusk as a "subconscious racist" and added, only half in jest: "I wonder to what lengths Dean Rusk has to go in order to gain support for his and Johnson's war in Viet Nam." Studs Terkel, a Chicago writer and radio commentator, had nothing against the wedding, but as an Administration detractor could not resist a crack: "L.B.J. is at work again. The next thing you know, we'll be reading that...
Long Survivals. Despite remaining difficulties, the outlook for victims of acute lymphocytic leukemia continues to improve. Since 1964, the proportion of patients who gain complete if temporary remissions as a result of intensive treatment has gone up from 50% to 90%, said Dr. Zubrod, and the median survival time has stretched from 19 months to three years or more. A few patients have done still better, reported Sloan-Kettering's Dr. Joseph H. Burchenal. He knows of 87 children and 16 adults who are alive five years after first diagnosis, with no detectable disease. Indeed, 29 of them have...
...change Harvard, why try to gain some control of the University? From the first it must be clear that there is a crucial distinction between hippies and radicals. Hippies are radical in their way of life -- they are alienated from the norms of society on a full-time basis. Radicals, on the other hand, are activists who are less concerned with their effectiveness in bringing about change...