Word: oldest
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...brief argues that as a result of its "long experience" in the area of admissions and its expertise in choosing a well-rounded, diversified class representative of all ethnic, socio-economic and racial groups, the "oldest and largest privately-endowed institution of higher learning in the United States" knows best...
...battle in the Nottingham coal fields was being waged over miners for whom the strike will be a huge financial loss-"those who live from Friday to Friday, up to their bloody eyeballs in debt," as Joe Whelan puts it. Even the oldest red brick row house in Nottingham has a television antenna on its roof, wall-to-wall carpeting, and an automobile parked out front, all bought on "hire purchase," as the British call the installment plan. "With mortgages, with hire purchase, we can't afford a strike," says Marge Reid, whose husband has been a miner...
...opera's oldest saws is that if you do not know what else to do with a tenor, put him on a staircase. In Vespri, everybody has been put on a staircase, which suggests that Director Dexter did not always know what else to do with his singers. The stairs (38 in all) rise gradually from the apron to stage rear and, depending on the scene, rearrange themselves in varying zigzag patterns as a good unit set should. Meanwhile, barricade walls slide in and out from the wings, prison bars float gracefully down from the flies. All this...
...OLDEST saws about Southern politics runs something like this: If only a politician in the South could run with the united support of blacks and blue-collar whites, he would be unbeatable. And since he wouldn't be tied to the rich whites who control the South, he could really change things. Only a very few Southern politicians have been able to put together this mythical coalition, but Jim Garrison, the six-and-a-half foot tall New Orleans district attorney who lost his third reelection campaign in December, remained politically powerful in New Orleans for years with a loyal...
...Jerusalem, the sense of accommodation was equally evident. As a new Knesset was sworn in-with Premier Golda Meir* as its oldest member taking the oath first-the Labor-dominated government won easy approval (76-35) for the disengagement agreement. In addressing the Knesset, Mrs. Meir announced that Israel does not consider the eventual pullback line in the Sinai -to be reached 12 days after the west bank retirement is finished-as a permanent border. "It has been our position from the start," she said, "that the separation of forces is not the ultimate goal, for we are prepared...