Word: inserted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...takes almost six hours more than 365 days for the earth to complete its annual trip around the sun. Thus, to keep the calendar in time with the earth, a 366th day-Feb. 29 -is added every fourth year. Now, as leap year 1972 approaches, scientists are preparing to insert a new and considerably smaller correction into the calendar: the leap second...
...justified: for instance, when one spouse suffers permanent mental incapacity. It also says the church should explore the possibility of communal and other sex styles for the unmarried. The church's General Assembly voted to "receive" the report for study after deciding by a narrow margin to insert this amendment: "We reaffirm our adherence to the moral law of God that adultery, prostitution, fornication, and/or the practice of homosexuality...
...Kent State today is nothing like Oberlin-or even Kent State, 1969. The bloody afternoon of May 4 ensured that the campus would not be the same for years to come. Passers-by stop at the sculpture outside Taylor Hall, insert a little finger in a clean bullet hole and quietly move on. In general there is a sense of listlessness on the campus, coupled with a lingering frustration over the handling of what the students consider to have been a massacre. Last August the office of Attorney General John Mitchell dropped further federal investigation of the incident. Two nonradical...
...assumption was a segment from Time Magazine's article on Attica. The segment said that the more militant prisoners at Attica "passed around clandestine writings of their own; among them was a poem written by an unknown prisoner, crude but touching in its would-be heroic style." In an insert, Time printed the first stanza of this "would-be heroic" find...
...usually delivers what he promises and does not promise more than he can deliver. Medicare, the Housing and Urban Development Act and the 1964 Civil Rights Act would not have been passed without the active support of Meany's Washington labor lobby. Meany personally appealed to President Kennedy to insert into the civil rights bill an equal employment opportunity clause that would apply to unions as well as to business. He told Kennedy: "The only way I can get to some of my own bastards in the unions is to go to them and say, This...