Word: polk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, when the U.S. moved 1,500 infantrymen by highway into the divided city in a routine shift of regiments, there was not a moment of obstructionist delay at the Russian checkpoint. Ready to greet the fresh troops was a new U.S. West Berlin commandant. Major General James H. Polk, 51. Said Polk, in a message to West Berliners: "We are here to stay...
Center forward Hugh Polk is the team's leading scorer to date. Coach Dana Getchell describes him as a fast and agressive boy who is "able to make his own breaks...
...tolerates white students who join Negro sit-in pickets, and it tolerates W. C. George, a retired medical professor who recently earned a $3,000 fee from Alabama with a study "proving"' the biological inferiority of Negroes. It is rightly proud of such alumni as President James K. Polk (1818), and wryly proud of such graduates as the late swindler Gaston B. Means ('22), described by Historian Archibald Henderson as "the most able, ingenious and imaginative criminal...
...opening game of the season, a powerful freshman soccer team overwhelmed its opponents from Tufts by the lopsided score of 10 to 1. High scorer in the away contest yesterday was Crimson center forward Hugh Polk, who tallied four times. Six other Crimson men chipped in for one apiece. Harvard was never in danger, sporting a five-goal lead before captain George Meyfarth hit the nets for Tufts...
Drastic Intervention. Monroe's successors not only upheld his doctrine-they extended it beyond the scope he originally gave to it. In 1845 James K. Polk declared, as the "settled policy" of the U.S., that "no future European colony or dominion shall with our consent be planted or established upon any part of the North American continent." Far broader was the Theodore Roosevelt extension of the Monroe Doctrine. Down through the 19th century, it was official U.S. policy that the Monroe Doctrine did not bar outside nations from using armed force against Latin American states to punish wrongs...