Word: passe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warn his students well in advance of the hour exam that they were in for a " toughie. " As the day approached, he would start hinting at some of the incredibly intricate questions students should prepare for, and with one lecture to go he would-in a burst of charity-pass out a list of relevant items. The actual exam then consisted of a single question, typically " The Eighteenth Century began in 1669. Discuss...
...composition of Harvard classes changes only imperceptibly as the years pass, and the 1200-odd members of Harvard '73 are no exception...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Nixon's urban affairs adviser, believes that possibly the high point of violence has already been reached. "I would think we have passed that," he said last week. If he is right-and events going back through this summer to the Martin Luther King riots of 1968 indicate that he might be-it is an extraordinary and unexpected evolution within the black revolution. In the worst hours of the most reckless rioting, many white Americans feared that the fire next time would strike where the white man lives and works. This ugly vision of race...
...reason, of course, is that the F.D.I.C. guarantees all deposits of member banks up to $15,000. Thus when the First State Bank of Aransas Pass (pop. 8,000) failed to open last week, the F.D.I.C. moved in with what by now has become a familiar operation to many Texans. The bank had speculated in land adjoining the site of a planned metallurgical plant, and lost heavily when the plant did not materialize. The price of failure was borne by First State's shareholders, who do not enjoy any Government protection and who suddenly found their...
...throw it away." But more than one historical commission has decided to preserve an old water tower or mill after the Bechers photographed it. That fact makes plant managers wary of the husband-and-wife team, whose mere interest in an obsolete object may induce local do-gooders to pass an ordinance forbidding its destruction...