Word: ground
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...singles action, junior Christian Dragomirescu improved her singles record to 29-13 on the season with a straight-set decision over Jennifer Lane. Dragomirescu capitalized on Lane's errors, and used a solid ground stroke game to crush Lane...
...witnessed the "I am a faggot" incident that Mr. Henebry recounts in his letter to The Crimson (April 25). It took place at a Navy-sponsored orientation the summer prior to my freshman year (not on an MIT parade ground). A former Navy ROTC instructor ordered a classmate with a pierced ear to stand at attention and shout, "I am a faggot! I am a faggot!" Those of us who saw this were horrified; all the new recruit had done was show up to orientation with a pierced...
...pressure to persuade the Americans to agree to start bargaining immediately for "equal but lower" levels of short-range nuclear weapons. Some leading West Germans are even pushing for eventual elimination of all short-range nuclear arms in NATO's forward zones, something the U.S. categorically rejects on the ground that without them, conflicts might break out more easily. The Bonn government is so eager to overcome U.S. opposition to these talks that it has dispatched Defense Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg to Washington to plead Germany's cause. The U.S. would rather Stoltenberg stayed home, since the Administration does not intend...
...discrimination on the basis of race, sex or sexual orientation. How can either body consider officially condoning a student organization which so blatantly violates these principles? Reinstating ROTC is tantamount to restoring University ties to the final clubs. As we are all aware, military personnel are routinely discharged on grounds of sexual orientation. Moreover, ROTC promotes homophobic attitudes which are harmful and divisive in our (relatively) progressive society. We know of one ROTC student who, because he had a pierced ear, was made to stand in the parade ground at MIT shouting, "I am a faggot...
...outsize subject with equal parts of anecdote and scholarship. He does not attempt the intimate tone of Barbara Leaming's authorized 1983 biography or try for the high-skid finish of Charles Higham's Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius (1985). Citizen Welles covers more ground and digs deeper, revealing an artistic nomad whose life had too many ups, downs and lateral movements to be treated as a sales chart. The author is a great admirer, crediting Welles as an originator of the film noir genre and a technical pioneer whose influence can be detected...