Word: garners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weight relay team, which is made up of women who participate in either the discus or shot put events, covered the 440-yard distance (4 X 110) in 65.8 seconds. Cynthia Young (17 seconds), Gloria Felde (16 seconds), Diana Gilligan (17 seconds) and Clara Tatrallyay (16 seconds) combined to garner third place out of the 16 schools entered...
...support for President Ford's plea for further military aid. Observed Democrat Don Bonker of Washington State: "People are drained. They want to bury the memory of Indochina. They regard it as a tragic chapter in American life, but they want no further part of it." Said Republican Garner Shriver of Kansas: "The feeling is that we have made a considerable contribution to Cambodia and South Viet Nam and that we've done enough." Added Democrat Joseph Gaydos, whose district encompasses the formerly pro-war steel towns of western Pennsylvania: "In retrospect, most people realize that regardless...
...Congressman may have arrived after a successful career elsewhere, but he must still undergo a humbling apprenticeship. Anxious to make his mark among his jostling peers, he will have ingested Sam Rayburn's advice that to get along, go along; perhaps he has also learned from John Nance Garner that "you can't know everything well. Learn one subject thoroughly." In a place where talk is cheap and oratory poor, his fellow legislators will judge him by whether he has "done his homework" well-and that phrase accurately registers the tedium involved. Going along, getting along, he becomes...
...does not see undergraduate sports as sacred battle, and in that sense he is a metaphor, of sorts, for the Harvard community, which rarely whips itself into a frenzy about any "big game." Matthews does not publish brochures touting his prospective All-Americans, as some schools do to garner votes for their stars in post-season honors races ("I'd be fired if I did!" he says), and he does not sit in on interviews with Harvard players to gently steer the conversation away from delicate areas. He thinks the primary1
Though they met outside the U.N., the demonstrators did not, in fact, expect to influence the upcoming debate so much as to garner their own strength for the struggle that many feel is inevitable. Indeed, not since the foundation of Israel have American Jews been so fearful about the pressures on that country, and the feeling last week was decidedly anxious. "We feel we're back in 1947 with all that that implies," said Rabbi Miller. "It's not just a little piece of territory-Gaza or Nablus -that's involved. What's involved...