Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Only Man. "Maintain" was not really the word. "Prevail" was more like it. All her life she spoke of the pomp and protocol that enveloped her as "the cage," and she never ceased struggling to escape its confines. As a constitutional monarch she had limited executive powers; yet she learned statecraft so thoroughly that Cabinet ministers were constantly being stumped by her sharp questioning. In exile during World War II, so efficient was she that one escaped Dutch Resistance fighter marveled. "The government in London was a bunch of chattering wives, but there was one man: the Queen...
...Odds Prevail. Now all this is changed; Naked Lunch will now be available at the friendly neighborhood bookstore, right there beside Youngblood Haivke and The New English Bible. The terrible Mary McCarthy has spoken of Burroughs with respect, and the Saturday Review's John Ciardi has praised his "profoundly meaningful" search for "values." British Writer Kenneth Allsop called him "Rimbaud in a raincoat." The grey eminence himself has even appeared at that squarest of social gatherings, a writers' conference...
Progress has always been the great bulldozer, demolishing Greek temples for paving stones and palace walls for slums. How in the New World is the graceful Georgian mansion to withstand the shopping center, or the columned grandeur of Pennsylvania Station to prevail against the flat, glass-curtain wall...
Results of the current project only tentative, but one important result is that students agree substantially about the "pressures," which prevail in their own House...
Edward M. Kennedy '54, the nominee for Senator, drew the strongest applause. He raced onto the dals to declare: "With out this spirit we cannot prevail. With the spirit we cannot fall...