Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cloistered Eliot House has only one entrance. The House Committee has to struggle each year to obtain Finley's permission to leave open a gate leading to Memorial Drive. The main archway is guarded, fittingly enough, by a superintendent in a three-piece suit with a gold watch fob. Within this protective and comfortable setting, Finley has become a self-conscious anachronism who, though he may sound like a broken gramaphone at times, serves an important and colorful function as a symbol of Harvard past. He enjoys the role. "I sometimes see myself as a tree under which the arcadia...
...next 250 years. In 1949, a Sebastian, Fla., contractor named Kip Wagner began to collect the blackened silver coins that occasionally washed ashore. None of them, he noted, were dated later than 1715. Wagner began ransacking libraries for data on the 1715 catastrophe. He managed to obtain 3,000 feet of microfilmed documents from Seville archives, found details of the Silver Plate fleet's cargo manifestoes plus testimony from the official investigation of the wreck...
...immoderate Super-Ego demanded from him the impossible." Why? "Because he was the son of God." Faced with aggressive (that is, masculine) resistance to his peace program, he practiced the feminine strategy of capitulation. Why? "His unconscious desire to be Christ invented the comforting theory that he could obtain all that he wished without a fight, that he could hand all his weapons to his enemies and convert them by that noble gesture into saints." Describing Wilson's 1919 cross-country campaign to plead his case for a League of Nations, the authors observe: "One may be sure that...
...first areas the council will study is the growing financial importance of Federal-State government relations. Beer, a specialist in this area, said yesterday that the Council will make sure the state takes maximum advantage of opportunities to obtain Federal money for state projects. The growing importance of Federal money in state politics, Beer explained, is one of the main forces behind Kennedy's increasing role in Massachusetts internal politics...
...first time since the Civil War. True enough, the right was carefully limited. No strike that had the slightest political overtones would be allowed, and no strike of any kind could be called until labor leaders had gone through weeks of mediation and complicated bureaucratic process to obtain government permission...