Word: lag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...locked the rest rooms. Other Negroes surged screaming through a motel. During the week 300 people were jailed, a dozen were injured. Mayor Allen hoped to head off worse violence. Said he: "Atlanta will accept no ultimatums and bows to no threats. At the same time, it will not lag in its efforts to ensure all of its citizens their full rights of citizenship...
...need of reform. Christ himself was free of sin; but the continuation of his work, Dopfner pointed out, "has been entrusted to frail, sinful humans." Thus the church has sometimes been guilty of "failing to achieve what God had desired. The presentation of the love of Christ can lag if the church uses the means of power instead of humility, of force instead of service...
Director Mervyn LeRoy lets the pace lag from time to time, but relief is ever nigh. And are the gags still funny? Very, very...
...Administration has already lost any chance of putting a U.S. supersonic into commercial service before the Concorde. Even to put a supersonic into service by 1970, the U.S. must gear up a crash program -and crash programs are notoriously costly and inefficient. The irony of the U.S.'s lag is that if Eisenhower and Kennedy had not clipped the B70 supersonic bomber program, the U.S. would be far in front in the supersonic race, could have adapted a commercial jetliner from the military prototype...
...universities start with one strong suit - typically, a good medical school. What marks them is a new effort to strengthen their other schools, to pool their resources with former rivals, to serve the community in some striking way, to install strong leadership and keep moving. Though worried because they lag in undergraduate education, they nonetheless see graduate study as their rising role in a knowledge-hungry society. More than ever they are ready to use money effectively. At least four such schools, all private, have now outstripped their regional reputations and stand ready for national recognition...