Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only with money matters, he believes, and much of the blame rests with the law schools themselves. One survey he cites shows that only seven out of 502 students polled after the first year of law school were favorably disposed to criminal law. For Williams, it has become a mission to travel among law schools, telling students to use himself as an example and skip the corporation jobs to become criminal lawyers...
...tugs, although they do have the secondary capability for long ocean tows. Their primary mission is rescue salvage. In this capacity, these vessels have roamed the coasts of Viet Nam pulling less fortunate vessels from the beach and salvaging numerous items from offshore waters...
...being rust-pitted and rickety: when one considers the mission of an ARS, it becomes very clear that there are times when she is going to get scratched, banged and, in general, look quite shoddy. But it is at this time that she is probably doing her best work in assisting some other vessel. The overall material condition of the ARS is every bit as good as any sleek destroyer afloat...
Lyndon Johnson obviously hopes that his mission to Asia will have served the dual purpose of covering an international flank for his country and a political one for his party. The G.O.P. is frankly concerned that the last-minute "Johnson blitz," as Richard Nixon labeled it last week, may have a major effect on the outcome of the elections. As if anticipating criticism that his Asia tour was planned solely for political advantage back home, Johnson admitted to Premier Ky in Manila: "People may say it's just propaganda, but let's hope it's more than...
...Kruse of Grand Haven, Mich. A retired insurance executive, he devoted the last years of his life to passionate study of his own family tree. Indeed, when he died aboard a Greyhound bus in Pennsylvania last March at the age of 67, Kruse was homeward bound from a genealogical mission to the New York Public Library. He had good reason to have given considerable thought to his probable heirs. When a Grand Haven bank opened his safe-deposit box after his death, it found securities worth...