Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assassination attempt came while Ayub was sitting on a speaker's platform at Peshawar. A disaffected engineering undergraduate in the crowd leaped up and fired two Luger shots from the improbable range of 30 yds. Ayub went on to give his speech, later dismissing the attempt with soldierly aplomb: "Don't worry, it's part of life...
They just finished building this meditating platform out back. They asked me if they could build it; and I said sure, if it helps them put out the paper...
...Yale's helm, Brewster has guided the University one step further down this perilous course. For his boys, there will now be no more waiting in drab New Haven station for trainloads of weekend sex. They will no longer have to pace back and forth on the platform of Track 8, chewing their fingers and sweating in their pants. Instead, they will go blissfully about their daily business, because out of the blue sky of creation a Yale baby has been born...
Kansas City's Bishop Charles H. Helmsing last month accused the lay-edited National Catholic Reporter of turning itself into "a platform for the airing of heretical views" (TIME, Oct. 18). In an editorial for the current issue written by Founding Editor Robert Hoyt, the N.C.R. refuses to backtrack. Hoyt agreed that the bishop had the right to criticize the paper, but the editor charged that the condemnation statement "attempts to make the paper an outlaw publication, but without anything faintly resembling due process of law. It is a prime example of the attitude toward the use of authority...
...government, who terms the courses "racially bigoted and disgustingly anti-intellectual." In a letter to the Crimson, Kilson made this point: "Blissfull unaware that their bigoted and paranoid outlook makes shambles of scholarship and learning, the black critics of Social Sciences 5 seek to reduce the course to a platform for black nationalistic propaganda...