Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actions for which he requested approval, were inherent in his power as Commander-in-Chief. He seemed almost anxious to admit the possibility of Congressional limitations on his powers in such matters, and attitude which not many American Presidents have shown. Unquestionably Eisenhower would hope to gain prior Congressional authorization before undertaking any serious military action anywhere in the world...
Hatoyama is successfully winning Japanese conservatives away from the old Yoshida Liberal Party, while the disunited Socialists, though they are expected to gain between 15 and 30 seats in the 467-seat Diet, are given little chance of outmatching Hatoyama's shrewd, votegetting platform of nationalism, conservatism and a drift to neutralism in the cold...
...answers to questions on quotations from poetry. The team gets together about once a week for an hour or two of practice and, the night of the match, eats at a university training table, where, reportedly they get bigger steaks than those given the football team. But the chief gain, as ex-Coach Buchta sees it, is that "on this program we can finally show our brains instead of our muscles. What's more, the College Quiz Bowl has caused a campus revolution-it's making the bright student as popular and well known as the athlete...
...Secret Service, was not aimed primarily at preventing Communists from forging the cards, since they already are legally entitled to three of the four. The Secret Service was afraid that crackpots, confidence men, or would-be assassins could easily forge the cards from the picture, thus use them to gain entrance to the White House or to open doors elsewhere...
While at Harvard, he attacked the College's clubs as "snobbish." The seeds for his political views also bloomed. He bucked considerable University pressure to gain permission for well-known radicals to address undergraduates...