Word: mission
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...employing what might be termed "shock tactics," COCA has managed to attract the attention it needs to carry out its educational mission. The group's most controversial actions this year--the mock assassinations of "communist" students in House dining halls, and the distribution of mock draft notices to 900 male undergraduates--have been most effective...
...twin-engine Lockheed Electra lost radio contact and vanished into legend. Since that time women have become commercial pilots, paratroopers and even astronauts. Yet the name of Amelia Earhart retains the power to intrigue. Did she assume a new identity? Was she on a secret reconnaissance mission? Did she get captured by the Japanese? Mary S. Lovell shrugs off these theories; her emphasis is on Earhart's life and accomplishments...
That's because goal-oriented Lou Holtz is on a mission. He wants to win his second consecutive national championship, although he would never freely admit it. But he quietly asked coaches like Bill Walsh how they tried to avoid a letdown after their teams won championships. How long can he keep it up? His answer is pure Holtz, all deceptive diffidence and then steely follow-through. "I don't think we can win every game," he says carefully. "Just the next...
...reasons. One is that Japanese corporations are less open to American governance than American companies are to Japanese control. Also, Japan has been less than effusive in welcoming U.S. goods. Then too, no U.S. bureaucracy compares with Japan's Ministry for International Trade and Industry, an entity whose principal mission, some commentators believe, is to plot Japan's economic domination of the world...
Coward. That's no excuse. The Game transcends football. The Game transcends all mortal sporting events. We're on a mission from God. Victory shall be the highest spiritual glory, but defeat (I shudder) would plunge us into the depths of ignominy. Your hatred of football threatens to besmirch the good name of Harvard for all eternity...