Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current presidential try is unlikely to gain him much more than useful publicity, but he is slated to receive a handsome consolation prize. In 1978 Senator John Sparkman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is expected to retire-and Church is in line to succeed...
...this electoral policy is to legitimate the rightist attack on socialism, which is put in terms of supporting a "free" alternative to Stalinist domination. Caught between moves toward socialism and reaction, between a left and a right which imply coherent but opposite courses for the future, the Socialists can gain votes but never rule alone. Soares' party must cease its indecision and choose its allies and its direction...
...well-known choreographer Alvin Nikolais, speaking at Harvard earlier this spring, mentioned that his work with masks and body-distorting props in the early fifties allowed him and his dancers to lose their self-conscious mannerisms and to gain access to a deeper source of movement-imagination. It seems that using overcoats and simple face masks has done the same for Borg. In his piece in the Harvard/Radcliffe workshop performance last February, "Shadowlight," he seemed to reach for a dramatic depth that wasn't there. With "Between Two Moons" Borg has found that depth, the well-springs for a drama...
Heads soon began to roll. In May 1975, Mario Einaudi, freewheeling chief of a state-owned mining and textile conglomerate, was forced to resign after he highhandedly tried to gain control of a Genoa shipping, insurance and newspaper group without informing the government. Next to go was Raffaele Girotti, chairman of ENI, who had led the big state petroleum company to a $95 million loss. Camillo Crociani, apparently recognizing that his job was shaky, chose not to wait...
...American culture, by recasting them in the words of the immigrants themselves. In the wake of the assassination of czar Alexander II and the pogroms which followed, thousands of Jews left their homeland in the 1880s to fulfill their dream of a Jewish nation while hoping individually to gain some of the amenities of survival. The discovery that the two were mutually exclusive in America was the immigrants' tragic vision, according to Howe, and their subsequent individual decisions to assimilate were their tragic fall...