Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pusey's appointment to the University, McCarthy commented, "Harvard's loss is Wisconsin's gain." He called Harvard "a privileged sanctuary for Fifth Amendment Communists" and criticized mothers who send "their children anywhere they might be open to indoctrination by Communist professors...
Just one little amendment is all that stands between "us" and a peasantry. Just a few more states to vote for the amendment and America will not only lose money, but gain a cultural heritage...
...spokesman declared that since World War II the Soviet Union "has subjected ten once independent nations to its rule." His implication appeared to be that the Reds have been trying to gain domination of Jordan...
...with originality. His hero is Morris Bober, an aging Brooklyn grocer who is clinging to solvency by his fingertips. But Morris is also that legendary Jewish figure of misfortune, the schlemiel, whose fate has been told and retold from the Old Testament to Sholom Aleichem. Bobers good intentions gain him nothing but hard knocks. The only dangers he escapes are imaginary ones. Yet, through all his woes, there shines unblinkingly the steady light of a good heart...
...Indians Gain...