Word: prevail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fancy pants line, fine sheen gabardines and chinos prevail. To top them off corduroy shirt-jackets are the newest. Sport blouses with drawstring waists and cowl neck are another headliner. With colored braid and bow, sailor middies in white broadcloth are again popular...
...Democrats, or those of them whose political activity increased markedly after the President was stricken, may now lose interest in the forthcoming campaign on the theory that Mr. Eisenhower has victory in the bag. We hope this attitude will not prevail. We were not among those who believed that Republican prospects depended entirely upon Mr. Eisenhower's decision. The Republican Party is not a one-man party, and this is not a one-party country. A great many things can happen between now and November...
Whether law and order will actually prevail if Autherine comes back, no one could tell. Led by a racist sophomore from Selma, Ala. named Leonard Wilson, a Tuscaloosa White Citizens' Council was determined to do everything possible to keep her away. But Autherine herself was equally determined. While waiting for the courts to hear the contempt charge she filed against the university trustees for suspending her, she has been living and studying at nonsegregated Talladega College (enrollment 275), 118 miles from Tuscaloosa. She has even turned down a scholarship offer from the University of Copenhagen. Said she: "I keep...
...will do anything I can to help out John Thomson," he continued. "Anything Thomson wants I will do my best to get for him. If John wanted Bridges at Harvard, I could prevail on the Senator to go there...
...takes a real man to live it. It is not a matter of lust. To take plural wives, a man doubles, triples or quadruples his responsibilities. He has more problems to solve. He must create a home in which harmony and selflessness prevail. He must provide. And it takes a real saint of a woman. She must overcome human weaknesses. In the polygamous home, there can be no jealousy, no selfishness. The whole family must live for the family, not for individuals. The children are finer. They never acquire the pettiness of other children. They live in a home where...