Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passed, 443. As disappointed students began to file out of the gallery. Senator Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) immediately took the floor and introduced a new amendment cutting off funds to Indochina. Unfortunately, the language of the bill was such that no one could quite understand it. In one portion of the gallery, ten people stood up and called out, "God speed, end the war," before leaving. The president of the session called for order. Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott (R-Penn.) stood up, interrupting Mansfield, and denounced further introduction of antiwar legislation. He added to the confusion by referring...
...coeducational classes began, with Harvard agreeing to take full responsibility for Radcliffe students's instruction in exchange for a commensurate portion of Radcliffe's tuition. Prior to that time, Radcliffe had employed Harvard professors who were paid by Radcliffe and taught in Radcliffe buildings. Now the Cliffies ventured into the same lecture halls as Harvard students, although in the beginning, they were required to stand in the back in case there were only enough seats...
Waiting impatiently for the routine business portion of Polaroid's annual meeting in Needham, Mass., to end last week, Founder Edwin Land told some 3,000 stockholders: "I don't want what you are about to see to be involved in this monetary domain." Anyone who thought that monetary affairs are supposed to dominate an annual meeting soon found out differently. Land had decided to use this meeting to stage the long-awaited debut of his new, pocket-sized camera. Unfolding a leather-covered box to form a vaguely triangular Polaroid camera. Land focused on his oversized meerschaum...
...rebellion against rabbinic legalisms, a rejection of the rationalistic Judaism of the 18th century Enlightenment. It was a cry of fierce optimism in the face of the tragedy that seemed to be man's-and especially Jewish man's-normal portion. In a fragmenting epoch, Hasidism asserted that all Creation is one, that God is good, that man serves him best by rejoicing in life, however difficult...
...next 500 meters were, to say the least, unique as crew races go. As several hundred avid crew buffs lined the banks of the Charles at the finish line, one fan with the aid of binoculars broadcast this fateful portion of the row to the many interested, who at this point could not see the action...