Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strictly in Ulen tradition to spot Norris paddling along in one of the required exercise classes, and prevail over his protestations to come out for the varsity team. Last year's 440 yard ace, right behind top scorer Jerry German, figured he would be wasting his time. He could remember failing off a chimney scaffolding at the age of 12 and seriously damaging one leg. Two and a half years in casts and pulleys permanently shortened the limb, plaguing. Norris with a serious limp...
Tradition will prevail once again today in the sixty-fourth running of the Harvard-Yale football classic in the Yale Bowl here in New Haven. The six weeks of preliminary competition that marked the Elis with a crushing superiority went by the boards last weekend with a pair of startling upsets, and the 1:30 o'clock kickoff today will find most of the 70,496 persons in the anticipated sellout crowd of the opinion that "it will be anybody's game...
What Makes the Mare Go. Their plan recognized that money, even if it pours in from the U.S., is not everything. Four overriding conditions must prevail to bring Europe back to health...
...their economies. So Secretary of State George Marshall understood that Bodet spoke sound doctrine in his conference speech. But the U.S. wanted a defense treaty first. It would then be willing and ready to tackle economic problems at the Bogota conference next January. The U.S. view seemed likely to-prevail. At week's end Bodet himself urged that the whole subject of economics be put aside until Bogota...
...servitude.") Intervention by Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania was a "myth. Intervention cannot be concealed in bushes." As usual, Gromyko dragged his listeners around the same point through interminable repetitions. His reasoning was pervaded by the sublimely simple conviction that the Communist dogma was The Truth and would prevail. He was surrounded by an intangible body of strangeness, as though he had come from another planet and carried a piece of its peculiar atmosphere with...