Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...African blacks and coloureds admitted to Harvard-Radcliffe." I would be amazed, and indeed highly impressed, if any South African non-white nationals have been able to overcome the barrier of apartheid to the extent of being admitted to the College, or are likely to do so in the near future. I suspect there may be none. Can anyone disabuse me of this notion? This letter itself certainly does...
...scorching weather, powerful Princeton pushed its season's record to 13-0 with a convincing display of its near invincibility. Only Harvard's Bob Horne emerged with his head above water, surviving five match points to edge Princeton number four Jim Zimmerman...
...charm old winos, animals, and turn the odds on games of chance. We spent all our time in bars that winter, with psychotics and cocaine and morphine and rock'n roll. Me, I was a bit hungover and getting hungry, waiting for tunafish at the counter and she sat near me stuffing her face with coleslaw and milkshakes, dripping down her chin like drool and falling from her mouth...
...those fact-finding junkets that send conscientious Congressmen to the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids, the Louvre. Or, in the case of Kansas Senator Robert Dole, en route to a United Nations food conference in Rome, to the village of Castel D'Aiano near Bologna, where he hoisted one or two with some townsmen. Dole's visit was not so much a junket as a sentimental journey. It was at Castel D'Aiano 34 years ago that the Senator, then a young infantry officer, led an attack across the Po River. He was wounded by enemy...
...application is not our only aim." Tang countered, saying that there "should be some research that can not be practically applied in the near future" to provide a basis for growth in the level of science and technology in China...