Word: old
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some old favorites did not appear on this fall's list because they are not offered this term or the professors teaching them left...
...would let the only cow of a widow with six children become ill. The Pater Noster becomes a magic spell chanted in Latin by the local healer, and always there are the endless "Ave Marias," with the accent heavily on the Ave, which are brought forth, like my old Irish Grandmother's frequent "Mother of God!" for any occasion and every reason, to curse or to praise or simply to signal the beginnings of the rosary. Endless rosaries are said, too, upon waking, before sleeping, and just for fun sitting around the fire with the neighbors. The film makes...
Dole said that the issues in the Journal's editorial are old, and that August has consistently refused offers to comment on them in the past...
Peter S. McKinney, associate dean of the GSAS and chairman of the program's advisory board, said yesterday, "The program will review old stereotypes about the usefulness of people with Ph.Ds in the non-academic environment, and hopefully teach both Ph.Ds and corporation people that the Ph.D has very useful skills for industry...
...withheld; how it affects a nation's conduct; how it must be interwoven with concepts not only of national interest but of national honor. The book offers an unparalleled inside account of the high-stakes bureaucratic battles to control policy and of the forging of new relationships with old enemies. It shows how momentous events are swayed by the personalities of those engaged in them, with the personalities themselves profiled in shrewd, telling vignettes. In this week's excerpts Kissinger describes his unexpected initial summons by Nixon, how the new President's distrust of the State Department led to secret...