Word: mc
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While Jackson was trying to convince Harvard, he also had to turn around and sell the Boston Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) on the idea. Although initially unenthusiastic, the local boxing officials were impressed that Jackson had already lined up several New York Golden Glovers through Dick Mc Guire, his football trainer and boxing instructor at Fordham Prep. A 40-year veteran of the fight game, McGuire helped Jackson convince the Boston AAU of the project's feasibility...
...mc² may well = E in the known physical universe. Nothing quite that pat can be said about the cosmos of the human temperament. In the play of emotion, logic is seldom evident, and the laws of gravity and thermodynamics never. What goes up in the psyche sometimes does not come down; the boiling points of individuals and collectives alike are impossible to fix. In light of this, it is no wonder that science long shied away from studying, or attempting to explain, that most subtle and elusive of all human moods: happiness. Instead, it happily left the field...
Stockdale's record serves as a defense against that sort of mentality among the 345 students at the Newport school. Says Air Force Lieut. Colonel Norman Mc-Daniel, a fellow P.O.W. of Stockdale's and now one of his students: "A lot of training in the military tells you how you should act, but it doesn't give you the why. We're at a stage of moving from responding to what other people tell us to do to having more choice." Not an easy concept for military men, but as Stockdale puts it, "No philosophical...
...army and the people of Iran appeared to be on a collision course. For the third time in four days, crowds of Khomeini's supporters taunted the soldiers. The troops answered words with bullets, opening fire in emotional outbursts, then sniping with a coldblooded capriciousness. TIME Correspondent William Mc-Whirter, who witnessed a bloody confrontation at 24 Esfand Square in central Tehran, reports on the grim consequences...
...American Express Co. is to win its battle for McGraw-Hill Inc., the magazine, book and information-services giant, it will have to be by way of a revolt of Mc Graw-Hill shareholders against their own management. That was the upshot of fast-moving developments last week that abruptly switched the tide of battle in one of Wall Street's biggest takeover wars ever...