Word: prevails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When Crimson and Green clash, the Green is bound to prevail," a recently arrived Dartmouth student said. He added that he felt Dartmouth had "a tremendous amount of school spirit," and estimated that over 85 per cent of the student body is making the trip to Cambridge this weekend...
...times can one judge the mettle of a President. Harlow, who came to town a Democrat and turned Republican, served both Eisenhower and Nixon at the White House. Along the way, he concluded that successful leadership must harden into the quality of command if a President is going to prevail. That entails both taking political risks and abandoning the search for perfect solutions. "The White House is always filled with people with strong wills," explains Harlow. "They get along beautifully in success. But when they get into travail, these hard heads believe they are the only ones with the right...
...first nominee, there was some organized opposition from far-right activists who felt that O'Connor's early support of the Equal Rights Amendment and her less-than-rigid voting record on abortion was a "berayal " of true-blue rightism. Taking no chances that the zealots might prevail, O'Connor was probably the most thoroughly prepared nominee in history. Justice Department officials say she spent much of the summer poring over large loose-leaf notebooks containing answers to potential questions, as well as transcripts of past confirmation hearings. After two days of mock hearings with Justice lawyers...
...congressional battles are part of a far larger campaign, a many-faceted crusade in which Helms and other right-wing social activists are pressing to remake the nation in their own image. Helms' America would be a land where certain stern Christian principles prevail and free enterprise is enshrined, where abortion is outlawed, classrooms ring with the sound of children at prayer and Darwin is just a theorist, where school buses rust quietly in their garages, and sex and violence are banished from television screens and library shelves, where men are men and women know their place, which...
...mother's fudge-detector. Early on, for example, she perceives that timid Brother John is deeply in love with her. The unorthodox resolution of this passion is postponed many years because of Franny's reaction to being gang-raped by preppies. But honesty, blood ties and spunk prevail. She is avenged and finds happiness as a famous actress and wife of an ex-professional football player...