Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, last December, Kissinger defended American policy in Vietnam against attacks by three Oxford men in a transatlantic television debate...
...book is obviously aimed at a broader market than the one now domnated by the five-year-old Webster's Third New Interna tional Dictionary, which sells for $47.50, the 13-volume Oxford English Dictionary, which was last updated in 1933 and costs $300, and the $47.50 Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language, mainly unchanged since 1913. Random House has a bigger, cleaner type face, includes names of notable places and people in its regular alphabetical word list, throws in such usable extras as a 64-page world atlas and a list of major dates. Most...
...scholarship and politics closer together. But the Institute, for all the publicity, cannot stand on its own; at best, its existence merely constitutes a good excuse to do such things as bring senior government administrators and politicians (called 'associates') into Cambridge, or create a debating union modeled after Oxford...
About one-fourth of the money will be used to construct the Science Center, planned for the corner of Kirkland and Oxford St. The Center will include classrooms, laboratories, offices, a library, and computation facilities...
...several local officials, sent in 150 state troopers. Next day, a number of troopers studiously read newspapers a block away while white rowdies broke windows of four cars carrying Negro youngsters to school, chased and beat the occupants. As tension mounted, the Federal Government mercifully stepped in. At Oxford, Miss., U.S. District Judge Claude Clayton issued a restraining order warning Grenada officials to protect the Negro children or face federal contempt charges. With that, the state troopers surrounded the schools to protect Negro students, thereby persuading Negro demonstrators to turn back. Police eventually arrested eight Grenada whites for attacking Negroes...