Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...predecessors all had indelible lessons. Harry Truman, recalls Clark Clifford, his principal aide, spent his first year believing that Uncle Joe Stalin might be a lot like other tough politicians whom Truman had known. He waited for the Russians to act fairly and responsibly (as viewed from the U.S.) in the postwar world. Then one day Harry decided he had waited long enough. He climbed into his limousine and went to the Hill and declared the Truman Doctrine to help the weak nations resist the Communists...
Most people involved with the GSAS reacted favorably to the Keenan appointment. "We looked for somebody who was not necessarily an ultra-liberal, but for an efficient administrator. We believe that a lot of the problems with minority admissions at the GSAS lie in efficiency problems," Michael Harris, a spokesman for the GSAS Task Force on minority recruitment and admissions, said...
Still, an air of anxious, nearly jittery tension at Newell Boathouse yesterday verified that the outcome is still very much in doubt. But a lot of the tension broke during a free-for-all pick-up basketball game on the boathouse landing, played with a trash can mounted on the wall...
Brown invades the Business School Field this afternoon with a lot hanging in the balance. First, Harvard badly needs a win over the Bruins to thrust itself back into the battle for league honors...
...play with Coltrane. Now he's playing with a bunch of no-talents and he's beginning to take after them. If you are so inclined you can see trumpeter Byrd and his Blackbirds at Paul's Mall tonight through the 20th. I guess Byrd is making a lot more money these days, but musically he is nowhere...