Word: pars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part, it probably originates with the offhand elitism of many Harvard students--with their assumption that any institution bearing the name "Harvard" couldn't be quite up to par unless they and their peers participate...
...round. On the 12th hole, his tee shot sailed into the pine trees and dropped in a sandy lie. He followed with his best stroke of the tournament, a lofting wedge shot that carried over a gaping bunker and rolled dead 3 ft. from the pin for an easy par. He finished with a 281 total, one stroke ahead of Geiberger, Rosburg and Beman...
...case without a jury in one day that would take you a week or two weeks with a jury." In the civil law system in Europe, he said, "they never let one judge do anything. So if one judge in three is defective, which is probably about par for the American system, there are in Denmark or Holland or Sweden two other judges to offset him." - "I am no longer sure that the Fifth Amendment concept, in its present form and as presently applied and interpreted, has all the validity attributed to it. I am talking about requiring a defendant...
...blunt, 500-word warning that the discussion was taking an unwelcome and unwise turn. "To our regret, in today's speech by the representative of the Communist Party of Paraguay, attacks and condemnations were included against one party that is not attending the conference. We consider that if other par ties follow this procedure, this will lead to a course fraught with danger for the success of our conference," he said. Undeterred, Polish First Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka resumed the Soviet-orchestrated attack on the Chinese: "The principles of internationalism have been betrayed by the present leaders of the Communist Party...
...modern echo of classic Chinese opera, Maoism whines in shrill hyperbole. Rigidly doctrinaire, Chinese Communism retains the traditional belief that a clash with capitalism is inevitable; it calls for wars of national liberation throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America. Mao, who immodestly considers himself a Communist innovator on a par with Marx and Lenin, sees the development of world revolution as a repetition of the strategy used by the Chinese Communists to achieve power in 1949. At that time, mass peasant armies surrounded the cities where the government held power, and finally seized them. Mao envisions the peasant masses...