Word: pens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swift Western response to the Berlin blockade reflected postwar thinking about how to manage the Soviets. Writing in Foreign Affairs under the pen name "X" in 1947, George Kennan, then head of the State Department's policy planning staff, argued that the West should "contain" the U.S.S.R. by countering Soviet pressure at crisis spots around the globe. But Kennan later denied paternity of any "containment" strategy. It was President Harry Truman who made it the cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy. In requesting $400 million in military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey, which were threatened by Communist expansion...
...Matthews says a late spring conversation with Harvard coach Joe Restic gave him the idea to organize the Luxury Coach Express, a $100 per person roundtrip bus ride with an open bar, special lunches, a tape of interviews with famous Harvard-Yale game greats and a limited edition Cross pen. Proceeds go the Friends of Harvard Football and Yale's equivalent, the Y association...
There is, however, another and more hopeful view. We are arguing instead of fighting, whether at the United Nations, where President Reagan appeared last week, or through the printed statements that rolled off the Kremlin presses in response to Reagan. In this day of cataclysmic weapons, is the pen proving mightier than the Minuteman and the SS-20? Opinions are cautious and contradictory. Still, there has been born in these past chaotic weeks a small idea that more energy, time and wealth are being spent on persuading than on military maneuvering...
...district of a so-called magnet school, featuring specialized programs in the sciences, arts or humanities along with a core curriculum. Its purpose: to achieve integration by creating an inner-city school with an irresistible claim to academic excellence. Waller High School in Chicago, once a mere holding pen, was transformed by District Superintendent Margaret Harrigan into Lincoln Park High. It has a school of science with a college-level course in biochemistry, a school of languages that offers French, German, Italian and Spanish, and a school of arts that offers everything from the Stanislavsky acting method to Baroque music...
PENN 21, BROWN 20--The Quakers are no flash in the Pen, and the Bruins couldn't even topple Princeton last week. Still, this one will be close...