Word: lonelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only one member of the all-white Parliament voted against the bill. Amid government jeers, the lone Progressive Party representative, brunette Helen Suzman, warned that black nationalism as well as white nationalism feeds "on this type of kragdadigheid [toughness]." Although Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd and Vorster describe the menace facing South Africa as "Communism," the bill is clearly aimed at two African nationalist groups calling themselves Poqo and Spear of the Nation. Poqo (pronounced Paw-kaw and meaning "for ourselves alone" in the Xhosa tongue) patterns itself after the dreaded Mau Mau, which terrorized Kenya in the 1950s. It first...
...Siggel, star pitcher for the Harvard boys, threw a no-hit game for seven innings until Al Daly hit a fierce bunt past third-baseman Petey Kann. The Crimson scored its lone two runs in the sixth inning on a 500 ft. blast by Al "Four Eyes" Crenshaw, one-time geologist and photo chairman. The play had been set up by a crucial bobble of an easy infield fly ball, hit by Richard "Gnat" Ruge...
Since then, its original three sponsors have increased to ten, and the station claims a peak audience of about 165,000 viewers (Manhattan's lone educational channel can boast only some 65,000 viewers during prime time). Who watches? "Mostly housewives," claims a channel spokesman, who are presumed to be waiting up for husbands who are policemen, waiters, elevator operators, janitors, cab drivers-or late, late, late...
...ideal of the lone man working within the university community is, Mr. Fleming feels, a dying point of view. In contrast to the Harvard of pre-World War II days, "when professors were basically academics and their primary role was teaching and research," he believes that today many faculty members value a Harvard professorship because of its value elsewhere. "Professors now have a great variety of temptations," he says, adding wryly, "you must remember its more prestigious being a Harvard professor outside than being one here...
...Nats scored their lone run in the fifth when Larry Osborne singled, moved to third on a double by catcher Don Leppert, and scored as Ed Brinkman was grounding out to shortstop...