Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conflict between the CRA and the people of Donnelly Field led to the defeat of urban renewal in Cambridge. More discouraging now is the near lack of future for redevelopment in the City. The polarized attitudes that defeated renewal last spring still persist. Neither side will admit any wrong. Consequently nothing can really be worked...
Meredith was annoyed when newsmen asked him about his grades at Ole Miss. The university has said nothing, but rumors persist that Meredith is doing poorly. "You people don't seem to understand," Meredith said. "Maybe you don't think it's a very serious situation. I hear over the radio that my father's house has been shot into and you ask me how my grades are. This is not a casual thing. My father is 71 years old. He has worked hard to send ten kids through school. It's a very serious...
...atmosphere. Now their pride has soured; Vanguard I has become a bore and a nuisance. Its radio voice, powered by solar cells, is still on the air after 4½ years. Its reports translate to nothing more important than "Here I am." And unstoppable broadcasts, which may well persist for 1,000 years, clutter up a precious radio channel...
...long '66 will persist in its extracurricular inclination no one can say. Certainly by November hour exams some of the enthusiasm will have been replaced by proper Harvardian cynicism...
...Family. That was that-for now. But the issue of Kennedyism may well persist beyond November. If Teddy gets to the Senate, he will still have to stand for re-election in 1964-on the same ticket with the President. Nothing could be better calculated to drive home the issue of the Government's becoming a citadel for one man's family. Yet that possibility obviously did not bother the Democratic voters of Massachusetts last week. In fact, they could only regret that Old Joe Kennedy had run out of sons...