Word: prevails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that mob did not speak for the town. Rainey was no martyr to the ten Neshoba County clergymen, all of whom signed this statement: "There is an element of shame to all that there would be among us those accused of such a crime... We desire to see justice prevail...
...only objection voiced by Monro was that the number of Faculty members on the HPC should be kept small, so that its Faculty delegation could not form a bloc large enough to prevail whenever there is student disagreement. Monro would be a member of the proposed HPC, and the HCUA finally left the number of Faculty members unspecified...
...encourage men of their ilk to seek both responsible party positions and public office. A "national conference" of Republicans, as proposed by Massachusetts Attorney General Edward W. Brooke, would be a reasonable means of determining a new party philosophy; and by next summer moderates and liberals might well prevail in such a confrontation. In any case, all mechanisms for achieving moderate control, including the Republican Governors' Conference and the Congressional caucuses, ought to be explored immediately...
...about their detection methods, which are extremely efficient. They predicted the blast weeks in advance, reported it almost as soon as it happened, named its fissionable material, estimated its energy and followed the spreading cloud of radioactivity as it circled the Northern Hemisphere on the fast westerly winds that prevail at high altitudes...
...WILLIAM SCRANTON, even in his losing, sometimes amateurish campaign, was an articulate candidate, appeared gracious and gallant in his final acceptance of defeat. Appearing before the convention after the first ballot had signaled his defeat, Scranton said: "Some of us did not prevail at this convention. But let it be clearly understood that this great Republican Party is our historic house. This is our home. We have no intention of deserting it. We are still Republicans-and not very still ones either. And let the Democratic Party find no comfort in the spirited campaign we have waged within...