Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John D. Relman '79, a delegate from Winthrop House, said during the debate, "If we gain ascendancy through effectiveness and through our representation of the students, the fate of CHUL will take care of itself...
William A. Groll '80, a delegate from Adams House, said that one possible way to gain official recognition for the new student government would be to appeal to the Board of Overseers...
Morale has listed at the agency, and old hands have loosed broadsides at Turner, so far with little effect. He has also caused nervousness and resentment at the Pentagon, State Department and several other federal departments by lobbying at the White House to gain control of their intelligence operations...
...surely, are the Los Angeles truck drivers who swipe 55-gal. drums of used grease-about $25,000 worth each week-from local restaurants and drive-ins. The goo, worth $40 per bbl., is valuable because it is reprocessed into a food additive that causes cattle and poultry to gain weight. The thieves have oozed up across the nation, but most actively in Southern California, the fastness of fast food. Sometimes posing as legitimate grease collectors, they have cut chains placed on the outdoor grease barrels, smashed through protective iron gates, and driven over chain fences. Police are not doing...
What fencers do not know or, at least, ignore, is that director's maintain that premature assumptions cost rather than gain duelers points. Directors depend on their ability to re-create what has happened as an image in their brain. And, as local directors Gabor Demjen and Israel Colon explain, when their attention is distracted by a fencer or someone on the sideline, their re-creation can be confused and they are forced to rule no touch...