Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University, at least one dean believes, could be completely overrun by drugs. Everyone would be using them. Everyone would be stoned all the time, floating around with no responsibilities and no obligations. Or the gangster underworld (which is commonly thought to be the source of most marijuana) could gain a foothold in the University through student (and perhaps faculty) pushers. All these fears are very real to the men who make the rules and enforce them here...
...gain recognition, a group must have such things as local autonomy, at least ten undergraduate members, two faculty or graduate advisers, and no non-Harvard people. The College also requires the recommendation of the Harvard Undergraduate Council (a rubber stamp...
There are several good reasons for a group of students to take the pain to gain recognition as an undergraduate organization besides just the privilege of using the magic name: an approved organization can distribute printed matter in University buildings, it can use the University bulletin boards, with permission it can solicit in University buildings, and it can hold meetings in the classrooms or lecture halls...
...Russia out of deploying an anti-ballistic-missile network around key Soviet cities. Such a move, President Johnson argued, would force the U.S. to erect a shield of its own at immense cost, thereby imposing "on our peoples and on all mankind an additional waste of resources with no gain in security to either side." But the Russians, with their own hawk-dove divisions to worry about, were not listening. Now, discouraged by the Soviet response, alarmed at the looming menace of China as a nuclear power and buffeted by intense congressional pressure, the Administration has made a far-reaching...
...every day that a father can shed a political liability and gain a son-in-law. If he had been programmed on a Pentagon computer, Marine Captain Charles S. Robb, the 28-year-old White House social aide who sought and won Lynda Bird Johnson's hand, could not have turned out better for the President, who had made no secret of his displeasure over Lynda's long ro mance with draft-deferred Actor George Hamilton. Robb is tall (6 ft. 1½), dark, handsome, athletic, affable, intelligent, earnest, circumspect-and can hardly wait for his assignment...