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...doesn't crumble under pressure, as several key representatives already have--will depend less on leftists' and liberals' imagination of mechanized warfare than on liberals' and conservatives' unwillingness so he bothered with such things at all, on their new acceptance in theory of horrors like those they helped inflict in practice...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: The Going of the Americans | 4/24/1975 | See Source »

Thin Smile. The critical scrutiny that Mrs. Thatcher can expect to receive from her own party will hardly compare to the dressing-down Labor will try to inflict upon her as leader of the opposition. Perhaps exhausted by the tension of the past two weeks, she seemed unprepared to deal with Prime Minister Harold Wilson's irrepressible gamesmanship in their first parliamentary encounter. Admitting a "deep gulf between her and me in political philosophy," Wilson said that he nevertheless "looked forward to the informality and, if I may say so, the intimacy of our meetings behind [the House Speaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: A Tough Lady for the Tories | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

These two losses are the sole blemishes on the Terriers 14-2 ECAC record. Tonight will be their opportunity to sidetrack Harvard's Beanpot aspirations and inflict the first loss on the Crimson's 14-0 Eastern state...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Crimson Tackles Terriers in Beanpot Showdown | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

...Crimson played what was perhaps its best basketball all season, but occasional Harvard defensive lapses in the second half allowed the Bruins to storm back from a 42-39 halftime deficit and inflict on the Crimson a loss that will hurt for some time to come...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Hoopsters Drop a Squeaker to Brown | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

...have been, it provided only momentary relief--only until one realized that the man who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people had left office for what seems, in comparison, petty larceny. The men who had constructed the policies he had implemented stayed on, to inflict those policies on still thousands more innocent victims. John Dean was wrong: the cancer was not eating away at the presidency, it was the presidency, and its ravages have yet to be exterminated...

Author: By Rich MEISLIN President, | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

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