Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Epps thanked me for coming as he herded the group in the direction of University Hall. "We're late for our meeting with Dean Rosovsky on the Core Curriculum. I'm sorry, Jon, but I'm afraid you won't be able to join...
Evans said contributing to the Biko Fund is "a symbolic form of protest" and that Eastman's call for a total boycott came as a surprise because "it was so late in the year, and Michael was one of the initiators of the proposal...
Playmaking guard responsible for the headline and the steal: Herald-American gung ho editor Don Forst, late of the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, where his reporters considered him the best editor in the country...
...government would then provide "armed escorts" to the polls. The purpose of the escort service, of course, was to prevent those nasty Patriotic Front guerillas from messing with the democratic process. Burns and the wire services reporters made the escorts sound almost as benign as the Harvard Police's late-night drive-home service...
Frady refines that conceit a bit and uses it as an underlying premise of his splendid biography: to many who have been ambushed by change, "Graham has become the only familiar American paragon left; the last hero of the old American righteousness." Through the racial convulsions of the late '50s and '60s, and then Viet Nam, writes Frady, "there finally began to hang over the country, worst of all, forebodings of some actual loss of our own native rectitude, of America's constitutional decency. Perhaps no one is finally so dear as he who returns and restores...